With three massive recruiting weekends left until national signing day, LSU remains in great position to claim ESPN’s No. 1 class for 2016.
Although three of LSU’s top five committed prospects -- defensive backs Saivion Smith and Eric Monroe and linebacker Rahssan Thornton -- are from out of state, the top-to-bottom quality of this class will heavily rely on homegrown talent.
Louisiana is typically fertile recruiting ground, and that is especially true this year. Nineteen ESPN 300 prospects hail from Louisiana, and LSU has already earned verbal commitments from 10 of them.