BATON ROUGE -- Will Devin White be in an LSU uniform next season or not?
That decision will, according the Butkus Award winner, be made after the Fiesta Bowl on January 1.
No doubt that if White wishes to enter the NFL draft this year, he would be a shoe in as a first round pick. Players selected in the first round of the 2018 draft earned a signing bonus of at least $5 million, according to Forbes.
Starting cornerback Greedy Williams, a Thorpe Award finalist, has already declared early for the draft. LSU has sent 32 underclassmen to the draft since 2013.
White has said he wants to sit down after the bowl game and “sit down with the right people” and “make the best decision for me.”
If White stays, it will be for something that has eluded the Tigers and himself; a national championship.
White said he sees “all the videos” of former LSU quarterback Matt Flynn and his teammates kissing the 2007 BCS national championship trophy, and he said he wonders “Why can’t that be me?”
“I just want to make sure that I leave this place better than I found it,” White said Monday. “Such as my legacy and stuff: what do I stand for? And that type of stuff. I want everything to be done the right way. And I don’t know if I’ve reached that limit yet. I said at (SEC) media days that I want to be the best LSU linebacker ever, and I think it’s still something I’m chasing to this point. That’s why I know for sure that I can’t be all the way out.”
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TRACEY JAGNEAUX Sports Editor