BATON ROUGE – LSU senior linebacker Kendell Beckwith was named the Reese’s Senior Bowl Senior of the Week on defense after earning a career-high 15 tackles in last week’s 45-10 victory over the Southern Miss Golden Eagles in Baton Rouge.
Beckwith, a Clinton, Louisiana, native earned 12 of those 15 tackles in the first half alone against the Golden Eagles, as the Tigers went into halftime tied at 10-10 before scoring 35 unanswered points in the second half. Beckwith and the Tiger defense held a high-powered offense to just 242 total yards by the end of the game, as he earned his seventh double-digit tackle contest of his career and second of the season.