LSU football depth chart: Myles Brennan ready to succeed Joe Burrow under center

The LSU football depth chart is out for Week 1 and Myles Brennan steps into the big shoes of Joe Burrow as the Tigers’ starting quarterback.

The defending national champion LSU Tigers get their 2020 season underway on Saturday against Mississippi State, and while Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow is now in the NFL, head coach Ed Orgeron apparently believes that he has found a worthy successor at signal-caller.

Orgeron named quarterback Myles Brennan as the team’s starter, with the junior now tasked with dealing with considerable roster turnover from last year’s high-powered offense and the lofty expectations that accompany replacing Burrow, who just put together perhaps the greatest individual season in college football history.

Orgeron, however, seems to be a fan of the Mississippi native’s arm talent, claiming he may even have a stronger arm than Burrow.

The LSU football depth chart is out ahead of their season-opening game vs. Mississippi State as Myles Brennan succeeds Joe Burrow under center.

The initial returns from Brennan’s training camp have reportedly been promising, but expecting him to live up to Burrow’s standards, especially with passing game coordinator Joe Brady and the majority of the starting offense from last year gone, is frankly unreasonable.

The Tigers should remain in the national spotlight as always, but expecting College Football Playoff contention is unrealistic for any team with that degree of change from a year ago, and even more so in a year when a pandemic has disrupted the offseason considerably and caused players to opt-out of the season.

One such player, wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase, will be missed considerably, with the likely top-five pick opting out to focus on the 2021 NFL Draft. Chase would have eased the transition for Brennan or any new quarterback for that matter, but the junior will now have to learn to live without the All-American.

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