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BATON ROUGE, La. -- GeauxTigerNation writer Gary Laney answers your questions: From: Biff (Chicago): Do the recruiting coaches feel any advantage in having someone like Lavar Edwards, who wasn't a starter his senior year, get drafted into the NFL?...

LSU TIGERS 2012 record: 10-3 2012 conference record: 6-2 Returning starters: Offense: 9; defense: 3; special teams: 1 Top returners: QB Zach Mettenberger, RB Jeremy Hill, RB Alfred Blue, OL La'el Collins, WR Jarvis Landry, WR Odell Beckh...

Alabama might have fallen to No. 2 in ESPN colleague Mark Schlabach's Way-Too-Early Preseason Top 25, but I'd like to think that most of the college football world still considers the Crimson Tide to be the favorites to win the national championship ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- With LSU's spring practice and the NFL draft done, who are the Tigers' top 10 players? Let's see. 1. LB Lamin Barrow: LSU had eight players drafted from its 2012 defense and Barrow, with 104 tackles last season, was more produc...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Five things we learned in LSU's spring game Saturday, a 37-0 win for White (first-team players) over Purple (various reserves): 1. Mettenberger adjusts: Quarterback Zach Mettenberger completed 12 of 19 passes for 236 yards and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- GeauxTigerNation writer Gary Laney takes your questions: Joe (Denham Springs, La.): Who are the big-name prospects coming to LSU's spring game? Gary Laney: The spring game (2 p.m. Saturday) is always a big draw and we are w...

Even for a coach who's been around the block as many times as John Chavis, the mass exodus of talent from LSU's defense last season was jolting. Gone are seven starters, and six of those were underclassmen. All six are projected to be selected lat...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Geaux Tiger Nation writer Gary Laney took your questions via email (glaneyespn@gmail.com) and Twitter (@glaneyespn). From Joseph (Seattle): Is it that I'm too LSU focused, or is there a surplus of hidden talent in Baton Rouge? ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Here are things to know as LSU starts spring practice: Practice dates: March 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23 (scrimmage), 25, 26 and 28. After spring break, resumes April 9, 11, 13 (scrimmage), 16, 18 and 20 (spring game). What's new...

As LSU prepares to begin spring practice March 14, GeauxTigerNation will take daily looks at aspects of the spring camp. This is the eighth in the series: BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU begins springs football practice Thursday with plenty of question ma...

As LSU prepares to begin spring practice March 14, GeauxTigerNation will take daily looks at aspects of the spring camp. This is the seventh in the series: BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU fans, do all the early defections to the NFL have you down? Doe...

As LSU prepares to begin spring practice March 14, GeauxTigerNation will take daily looks at aspects of the spring camp. This is the sixth in the series: BATON ROUGE, La. -- In four years, LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis has not yet had a un...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU's 26-player recruiting class is signed, sealed and delivered. Well, maybe. We've yet to see where Priest Willis will go or whether Tevin Lawson will accept LSU's grayshirt offer instead of choosing a conventional scholar...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Whatever you do, don't try to out-evaluate LSU coaches. LSU has been one of college football's premier producers of pro talent in the Les Miles era, and more often than not, the eventual high draft picks are players who were un...

Now that all of the early entries for this year's NFL draft are in, we decided to take a closer look at some of the players who decided to leave school early. We're checking in on how teams were affected and who some of the winners and losers were...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Around the nation, and to those who follow LSU from an arm's length, the news that trickled out from Nicholson Drive in the last week was alarming. The Tigers lost nine, count them, nine underclassmen to the NFL draft over the ...