LSU head coach Lane Kiffin joked about the Tigers not having NFL players on their roster while taking a 31-3 halftime lead over Clemson on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“Imagine if we had pro players,” Kiffin told ESPN’s Holly Rowe at the end of the first half.<\/p>\n
LSU chose not to add<\/a> tight end Dae’Quan Wright and defensive lineman Zxavian Harris to its roster on Friday despite both players becoming eligible to return to college due to a Louisiana judge issuing a\u00a0preliminary injunction<\/a>\u00a0against the NCAA\u00a0in their eligibility case.<\/p>\n Wright was waived by the Cleveland Browns in training camp before committing to the Tigers, while Harris was waived by the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n While both were pursued by Kiffin and Co., neither was on the roster for Saturday’s season opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU head coach Lane Kiffin joked about the Tigers not having NFL players on their roster while taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-885238","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\/885238","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=885238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}