LSU tailback John Emery, the brilliant spot in his workforce’s Week 1 loss to USC, will miss the remainder of the season after tearing the ACL in his left knee in Tuesday’s apply, a workforce supply confirmed to The Athletic.
That is robust information for each the workforce and Emery, who tore the ACL in his proper knee final yr.
On Sunday night time, he appeared again to pre-injury type, speeding for 61 yards on 10 carries and including one reception for 10 yards.
Emery was a five-star recruit within the 2019 class, initially committing to Georgia earlier than switching to his home-state college. He ran for 188 yards as a freshman on LSU’s nationwide championship workforce and was the second-leading rusher on the 2020 workforce with 378 yards. He then missed the 2021 season for tutorial causes and returned to be the workforce’s fourth-leading rusher in 2022 with 375 yards. Final season, he appeared in seven video games earlier than happening with the damage.
Emery briefly entered the switch portal this previous offseason however elected to return to LSU for his sixth season. He was the workforce’s main rusher within the 27-20 loss to USC, with fellow senior Josh Williams subsequent with 33 yards on 9 carries.
LSU signed one operating again within the 2024 recruiting class, Caden Durham, a top-100 nationwide prospect from Duncanville (Texas) Excessive College. Dunham didn’t have any carries towards USC. Sophomore Kaleb Jackson had 5 carries for 14 yards.
No. 18 LSU hosts Nicholls, an FCS program, on Saturday then begins SEC play at South Carolina. That’s adopted by residence video games towards UCLA and South Alabama earlier than the Tigers resume SEC play with a reasonably manageable schedule — No. 6 Ole Miss and No. 4 Alabama are the one future opponents at present ranked, and each come to Tiger Stadium.
LSU has been anticipating to lean extra on its passing recreation, led by quarterback Garrett Nussmeier and promising receivers. However a complementary operating recreation will likely be more durable to realize with out Emery.
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