by Lonn Phillips Sullivan

All seems right in Baton Rouge…but there are still omens of doom the Tigers must address during the Spring before summer’s brutal camps open:

While Austin Deculus locks up the right tackle spot, we have a group of guards who’s roles haven’t been locked down on the inside, although Ed Ingram and Kardell Thomas look like sure starters on either inside guard position to me.

Kardell Thomas is coming off a bad fall-camp ankle injury which curtailed his 2019 season until his re-emergence in the 2020 title game; in his stead, Ingram played much of 2019, suffering lapses early before recovering to become a quality option for Cregg, and finishing the season looking downright filthy.

Chasen Hines will attempt to make the center spot his own, though with the only option behind him being a former D-lineman forced over to center for the sake of competition, he better watch as much film on Lloyd Cushenberry and become more intimate with Myles Brennan’s clasped hands than Blondie’s girlfriend so he can grasp the position ASAP…we need him.

On the outside, left tackle Dare Rosenthal impressed Orgeron to the point of declaring “Dare will be playing in the NFL one day”, before cautioning the assembled media due to Rosenthal’s departure from school for “personal reasons”.

Rosenthal is expected to return to school by summer, but for now during the Spring, Marcus Dumervil and Cam Wire look to battle it out for the left tackle position. Dumervil, much like running back Kevontre Bradford, was a necessity LSU’s recruiting coordinators couldn’t afford to miss as part of our 2020 class…we had to grab a left tackle…a good one at that. Luckily, the highly-prized 4-Star recruit chose Baton Rouge over a pile of other schools, crediting Joe Burrow’s swagger and LSU’s juggernaut intensity whilst winning the national title as his motivation to come to the Boot.

We owe the young man every opportunity to earn the LT spot because of the public commitment on Early Signing Day…but Dare remains the favorite. Interestingly, Dumervil’s freshman teammate Marlon Martinez (also from St. Thomas Aquinas High School) followed his friend to join James Cregg’s LSU line corps, and this familiarity coupled alongside Martinez’s adaptability, could forecast a LT / LG tandem featuring Dumervil and Martinez.

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