DBU is a tradition continually fulfilling its own promises at LSU. It surely can’t go on forever, but LSU is on a seemingly unending run of dominant defensive back play. It’s a standard so high we easily discard players like Craig Steltz, who was a consensus All-American in 2007. Hell, Craig Loston is widely considered a major bust and all he did was make the All-SEC 2nd Team. It’s an entirely unreasonable and somehow entirely earned standard of greatness that LSU looks to be continuing into the future.
But the 2018 signing class took a major hit when superstar recruit Patrick Surtain Jr.