LSU linebacker Harelderly Perkins Jr. will omit the remainder of the 2024 season after he suffered a knee injury during the team’s triumph over UCLA.
Tigers head coach Brian Kelly said Perkins suffered a torn ACL. Perkins was awaited to declare for the NFL Draft after the season.
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“Certainly an injury that we experience terrible about, especipartner for Harelderly and the labor that he’s done,” Kelly said. “We’ll have somebody else step up. … These are difficult, but we’ve got repartner outstanding joiners that can come in.”
Perkins went down in the first quarter when he was trying to originate 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.
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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 join aacquirest South Alabama on Saturday before the heavy of the SEC schedule repartner gets into the heavy of it.
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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.
The Associated Press gived to this inestablish.
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