Ed Orgeron rules out LSU offensive lineman for remainder of season

LSU will be without offensive lineman Cameron Wire for the remainder of the season, Tigers’ head coach Ed Orgeron announced Monday during his weekly press conference.

“I don’t think he’s going to play the rest of the season,” Orgeron said of Wire. “Doesn’t look like it.”

Wire, a junior out of Gonzales, Louisiana, has been banged up throughout the 2021 campaign. He suffered an injury in LSU’s first game of the season against UCLA on Sept. 4 and didn’t play again until Oct. 2 vs. Auburn. Wire played in the Tigers’ 16-13 overtime loss Saturday against Arkansas but is now expected to be out for the rest of the year.

A former three-star prospect out of the 2018 class, Wire has played in 21 career games at LSU – six in 2019, nine in 2020 and six this season.

Lane Kiffin praises ‘remarkable’ job Ed Orgeron has done in final weeks at LSU

It’s no secret that LSU’s current head coach Ed Orgeron will not be with the team next year. But that has not stopped many of his colleagues around the conference from speaking about his coaching performance during this strange situation. Last week during the SEC football head coaches teleconference, Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin spoke on Orgeron’s work this season.

“It’s pretty remarkable you know, to be able to do that,” Kiffin said. “Like you said with the players knowing you’re not returning – and they’ve had a lot of opt-outs, injuries with a lot of great players. “So, to rally the troops like he did, and you know almost beat Alabama – I think Alabama had seven yards rushing or something – is really amazing.”

Now 4-6 on the season with a 2-5 mark in SEC play, LSU has two remaining regular season games against ULM (Nov. 20) and Texas A&M (Nov. 27) and must win both in order to become bowl eligible in Coach O’s final season.