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How does LSU produce so many NFL draft picks? Recruiting is one good answer. Another is development. The Tigers set an NFL draft record with six defensive players picked in the first two days (top three rounds), finishing with a school-record n...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- With national signing day two weeks away, LSU is close to the finish line, but the Tigers still have some big names they are after: Team needs: LSU was decimated on the defensive line by graduation and early NFL draft entrees. ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Under Les Miles, LSU has been great about finding an obscure prospect and turning him into a solid college player, an award-winner and often a high NFL draft pick. That doesn't mean the Tigers aren't immune to players who turn ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Every day at practice, LSU's offense gets to see an elite defense. The Tigers have arguably the top defensive line in the nation, two defensive ends projected by some to be top-five NFL draft picks and a secondary it calls "DBU...

We all know LSU's defense is loaded. The Tigers have made it a habit to replace NFL talent with NFL talent. So loaded are the Tigers that two of the top five players in next year's NFL draft rankings come from the defensive line alone (and you can...

With spring football and the NFL draft in the books, here are five things to know about LSU's secondary: 1. LSU's still DBU: For the second straight year, LSU had the NFL draft's first selected defensive back when cornerback Morris Claiborne went ...

By the time the dust settled on the 2012 NFL draft, LSU saw five of its former players selected during the course of the weekend. The overall haul of Tigers going into the NFL wasn't much of a surprise -- LSU has been one of the top suppliers of pro ...

Only five of LSU's NFL hopefuls made it into the seven rounds of the NFL draft, but plenty more were involved in a flurry of free agent activity during the weekend. Following the draft's conclusion Saturday night, NFL teams began contacting valued...

Anyone that wants an example of LSU's success at the defensive tackle position need only have tuned into the first round coverage of this year's NFL draft on Thursday night. The Tigers' success at creating next level defensive tackles was on displ...

When the Dallas Cowboys drafted LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne with the No. 6 overall pick in the NFL draft Thursday, he became the latest to prove that where one is ranked on the recruiting boards in high school does not predict where one will even...

Mercifully, draft day has dawned. It's been a winding road of workouts, interviews and speculation in the more than 100 days since Morris Claiborne and Michael Brockers announced their intentions to enter the 2012 NFL draft on Jan. 12. With the dr...

Michael Brockers' meteoric rise up many an NFL draft board has seen one hitch this spring. That came at the NFL combine when the early departing LSU sophomore defensive tackle, nervous and a tad overweight, did not perform as well as he would have...

Pro day is a process that takes hours, but for a trio of top NFL draft prospects, success in Thursday's LSU pro day could be measured in tenths of a second. Because for cornerback Morris Claiborne, wide receiver Rueben Randle and defensive tackle ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- The home stretch for the NFL draft begins in earnest Thursday for LSU alums, as the Tigers prepare for their annual pro day. LSU will play host to a small army of NFL scouts and coaches Thursday morning. Hopeful draft picks fro...

Fresh off its first loss of the season on Monday night, LSU suffered the first of its offseason losses. As anticipated, cornerback Morris Claiborne and defensive tackle Michael Brockers announced at a news conference on Thursday that they would en...