{"id":884084,"date":"2026-09-05T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884084\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:42:09","slug":"lsu-blinks-for-now-on-the-issue-of-putting-former-nfl-players-on-the-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884084\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU blinks, for now, on the issue of putting former NFL players on the roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discretion is the better part of valor. Or something.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an injunction allowing LSU to add former NFL players Dae\u2019Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris to the roster before Saturday\u2019s season opener against Clemson, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/2096078210156871920?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LSU opted not to do so<\/a>, via Pete Thamel of ESPN, before the Friday night deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The roster has 103 players, leaving two spots for Wright and Harris. Thamel adds that the two players could be added later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>The move suggests that LSU took a broader look at the benefits and the cost of moving forward with the two former NFL players, given the intense reaction by the SEC \u2014 and the potential for long-term issues with the conference and its other members.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/lsu-president-tries-to-leverage-current-chaos-into-antitrust-exemption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lurking between the lines<\/a> of the statement issued on Friday by LSU president Wade Rousse. And while coach Lane Kiffin may have wanted to shout \u201cdamn the torpedoes,\u201d Rousse apparently realized that the situation could sink the school\u2019s future in the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>Was it worth it? LSU decided that, for now, it was not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discretion is the better part of valor. Or something. Despite an injunction allowing LSU to add former NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-884084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}