Baton Rouge native and current Alabama commit. 4* from Southern University Lab; 6'4" 235 lbs.

There's been some talk that Marcus Randall is steering players to Alabama. Here he is in an article that seems pretty LSU-favorable: https://www.seccountry.com/lsu/christopher-allen-lsu-flip-alabama

This was already reported in another thread, but I figured he deserves his own. Looks like we may still be in the running, although, I'm not counting on anything.

So glad you started this thread. I was getting sick of seeing the Rice thread keep coming up.

So let's say just for argument sake we flip him. Do we still get Will Gay? What about the other kid Gay was talking about bringing with him, another LB

@bhelmLSU

LSU has to get this kid. You just can't let Diva Moses and Chris Allen get away.

Yep, tell them to open up the checkbook 1st, then say all that stuff you said about blondie being ALL SEC and stuff

This makes me wonder why no one wants to come in and play right away. Also, I don't understand the notion that Alabama develops LBs better than LSU. I haven't checked the numbers, but I thought LSU had more starting LBs in the NFL than Alabama.

Since I was writing the post, I figured I'd check. LSU has 7 LBs in the NFL, including Kiki Mingo. By my gauge, 5 of these are starters: Kelvin Sheppard, Perry Riley, Deion Jones, Kevin Minter, and Kwon Alexander. By comparison, Alabama has 6 LBs in the NFL. By my educated guess, 5 of them are starters: CJ Mosley, Reggie Ragland (not positive on this one), Donta Hightower, Mark Barron (safety in college), and Rolando McClain(shoutout to @LaSalleAve) ; I don't think Courtney Upshaw is a starter. This puts us at least even with them, being that none of LSUs LBs were developed by Saban and that Barron was technically developed as a safety.

McClain and Upshaw both play, however Upshaw is now a DE. Don't know if Upshaw starts. McClain does for Dallas.

McClain is out of the league. Couldn't control his love for the stuff.