LSU linebacker Harelderly Perkins Jr. will leave out the remainder of the 2024 season after he suffered a knee injury during the team’s thrive over UCLA.
Tigers head coach Brian Kelly shelp Perkins suffered a torn ACL. Perkins was predicted to proclaim for the NFL Draft after the season.
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LSU head coach Brian Kelly, right, pats linebacker Harelderly Perkins Jr. (7) as he is helped off the field after being injured in the second half of an NCAA college football game aacquirest UCLA in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Gerald Herbert)
“Certainly an injury that we sense horrible about, especiassociate for Harelderly and the toil that he’s done,” Kelly shelp. “We’ll have somebody else step up. … These are difficult, but we’ve got reassociate excellent executeers that can come in.”
Perkins went down in the first quarter when he was trying to create a tackle aacquirest the Bruins. He only had 1.5 tackles for a loss thcimpolite the first four games of the season.
He was a preseason AP All-America pickion after he had 5.5 sacks and 75 total tackles in his sophomore season with LSU. In his newman season, Perkins had 72 total tackles and 7.5 sacks.
LSU head coach Brian Kelly greets linebacker Harelderly Perkins Jr. (7) before an NCAA college football game aacquirest UCLA in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Gerald Herbert)
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Sophomore Whit Weeks is in the depth chart behind Perkins and will probable get called upon to step up next. West Weeks and JK Johnson are also on the Tigers’ depth chart.
LSU will execute aacquirest South Alabama on Saturday before the heavy of the SEC schedule reassociate gets into the heavy of it.
Sep 7, 2024; Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA; Nicholls State Colonels quarterback Pat McQuhelpe (7) rolls out of the pocket aacquirest LSU Tigers linebacker Harelderly Perkins Jr. (7) during the second half at Tiger Stadium. (Stephen Lew-Imagn Images)
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The Tigers already beat South Carolina earlier this month. LSU’s lone loss came aacquirest USC in the first game of the season.
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