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LSU football: Derek Stingley to play offense and defense in 2020

It’s kind of a given. If you manage to score a scholarship with LSU football, you’re more than likely an exceptional athlete with top-end athleticism and skill. That’s why the Tigers have consistently continued to recruit and produce high-level players for countless years.

Since 2000, the Tigers have sent 126 players to the NFL, placing them third in all of college football. And just like Alabama, Ohio State and Florida, the Tigers use their reputation to persuade and alter their roster for the sake of national championship rings.

But Ed Orgeron conveyed a different kind of offer to reel in Derek Stingley, as opposed to the normal crowd-puller that has oftentimes worked on many other athletes before him.