Best LSU football players: Modern-era Mount Rushmore – From Tyrann Mathieu to Joe Burrow

If there’s any reason to not have Joe Burrow on the LSU football, it’s that he only spent two years with the Tigers after transferring from Ohio State. But even with that being the case, his Heisman Trophy-winning 2019 season and overall body of work are enough for him to be an undeniable inclusion in the top four players in the history of the program.

En route to winning the National Championship this past season, Burrow was the driving force of the Tigers as he put forth perhaps the greatest individual effort we’ve seen in the history of the sport. Completing an absurd 76.3 percent of his passes, Burrow threw for 5,671 yards, 60 touchdowns and only six interceptions while also rushing for 368 yards and five more trips into the end zone.

Burrow cleaned up the awards for quarterbacks and being the best player in college football as a result of that season and played himself into being the eventual No. 1 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. That season alone may have been enough to get him on LSU’s Mount Rushmore as it broke every conceivable school record. But his overall work at LSU is just as impressive.

Even limited to only two years with the Tigers, Burrow is the second-leading career passer in program history (8,565 yards), the career leader in touchdown passes at LSU (76) while breaking a host of single-game records as well. There’s no way you can leave Burrow off this list after what he did in his two-year stint under Coach O.