LSU football: Former 5-star recruit Marcel Brooks enters transfer portal, will he stay in SEC?
LSU linebacker Marcel Brooks has entered the transfer portal.
LSU football didn’t lose at all last season en route to a 15-0 season and the national championship. They also saw Joe Burrow win the Heisman, Ed Orgeron win the Coach of the Year and Joe Brady take home the Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant coach.
LSU won everything they could last year, but since then they’ve lost 14 NFL Draft picks, a few more to the NFL as undrafted free agents and now they’ve lost sophomore Marcel Brooks to the transfer portal.
The news of Brooks, a reserve linebacker had eight tackles and 1.5 sacks in 11 games as a reserve, entering the transfer portal was first reported by Shea Dixon of Geaux247.
Brooks was expected to play a big role on the 2020 team and earn a starting job and be one of the impact defenders on a defense that needs players to step up behind Derek Stingley, Jr. Just because he’s entered the transfer portal doesn’t mean it’s automatic that he’ll leave, but it’s not a good sign.
As a recruit out of Flower Mound, Texas, Brooks was a consensus five-star prospect who was ranked as the nation’s No. 32 player overall, No. 2 outside linebacker and the No. 5 recruit from the state of Texas, according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings.
With K’Lavon Chiasson going to the NFL as a first-round pick and opening up a spot as an edge rusher/outside linebacker on the LSU defense, it was thought Brooks could develop into the next great pass-rusher/perimeter defender to make life difficult for opposing SEC offenses.
It’s unclear which school is the front-runner for Brooks if there is such a thing at the moment, but Brooks picked LSU over offers from other SEC teams Alabama, Florida, Texas A&M as well as other top-flight programs like Ohio State, Florida State, Texas, Oklahoma and Penn State, among others.
Wherever Brooks decides to go, that team will be getting a player that could blossom into a difference-maker.
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