Fall camp got underway yesterday in Baton Rouge as the 2022 college football season will kick off at the end of August. The team had to weather the storm as they had to start fall camp indoors. Inclement weather put on a damper on the LSU’s plan to practice outdoors. Here is what first-year head coach Brian Kelly had to say after the first day of practice during fall camp:
On the Status of Kayshon Boutte’s Health and His Potential in 2022:
“This was my first glimpse at him quite frankly and he is an explosive player. He’s learning how to practice. There were times where I had to remind him how to practice the right way, but he’s so committed. He’s worked so hard. I’m excited for him really because you can see his potential is ‘Can he be one of the best receivers in the country?’ I think he can be, but you have to go out and do it. I just like the fact he’s totally committed to what we’re doing and how we’re doing it and now he got the chance to see how we practice for the first time and he picked that up today as well. His player load was pretty high today, possibly more than we thought, but he handled it well and he’ll continue to build on that. Excited he’s with us.”
How He Wants the First Week of Fall Camp to Go:
“I want to get through these last two days as academic days. We have a number of guys who are still in our C session for academics, so that and as I mentioned, we have this planned out as a seven day climatization. Two days in spider pads and helmets, three days in shoulder pads, our sixth day will be full contact and the seventh day is a day off. So really the focus here is get through this first week and make sure we make good choices and decisions with our health and the climatization of our football team. Then we’ll ramp it up with the quarterback situation.”
How the Snaps Will Be Distributed Amongst the Quarterbacks:
“You’re not going to see much separation in the first seven days. That will take form as we get into down and distance situations. For example, these first two days are P and 10, meaning you’re dialing up every play that is not even a down and distance play. Practice three we start to get into some second down stuff, practice four and five you’ll see a bit more third down situations and when you get into that sixth day you’ll start to see some third down and long, which is where we can start to see some play calling that is going to be situated for the quarterbacks. It’s not going to be until the second week where we start to pin some plays on the quarterback.”
Anyone He’s Expecting to Be A Breakout in Fall Camp:
“I’m not just saying this to be positive, but Thomas, Nabers, Hilton, I’d like to see them all continue to develop because they are young receivers. Those would be the guys in particular. Jenkins has shown some things in spring that we’d like to see him progress more than he has. All of those guys are talented, but more than anything else it’s the consistency we want to see from those guys–that they do it play in and play out. Consistency and performance is really what we’re looking that group and if we get that, it will be a dynamic group.”
If you missed Brian Kelly’s press conference from the first day of LSU’s fall camp:
