2025 LSU Football Position Preview: Quarterbacks

This time a year ago we had a pretty good idea about what LSU had at quarterback, but nothing seriously concrete.

Garrett Nussmeier had the QB1 job locked up heading into fall camp, but AJ Swann was the most experienced quarterback on the roster. The fact of the matter is, outside of one start against Wisconsin in the bowl game, no one could say for certain what “Garrett Nussmeier: Starting QB” was going to look like.

The result? More good than bad! Nuss had a statistically better year one than those has-beens Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels did, and with the lack of a running game, missing a true deep threat receiver and frustrating play calling, I could argue that Nussmeier was asked to do…