BATON ROUGE, La. -- The way Greg Gilmore sees it, this is a “contract year” for Christian LaCouture, Frank Herron and himself.
If the three defensive linemen want to make it to the NFL next year, they need to prove they belong there in their fifth and final season at LSU.
“I made that up right in the beginning of the spring when we started working out, trying to motivate us guys, especially coming back for a fifth year,” Gilmore said. “The first couple weeks, you’re like, ‘Man, I came back,’ so you’ve got to motivate yourself like, ‘I’m a rookie in the league.