LSU DL Jacobian Guillory announces plans to return to Tigers for 2025 season

LSU defensive tackle Jacobian Guillory is returning to play for the Tigers for the 2025 season, he announced Thursday on The Jordy Culotta Show.

Guillory suffered a torn Achilles in a Week 2 win over Nicholls and is out for the season. He revealed on Thursday that he doesn’t want his LSU career to end in that fashion.

“I want to come back for another season. What I fought for at LSU, I can’t let it end like that,” Jacobian Guillory said. “So coming back for another season, it’s not only big for me, but it’s big for my family. It’s big for Alexandria back home. It’s big for everybody.”

Before suffering the injury, Guillory recorded one tackle against Nicholls. The 2024 campaign would’ve been Guillory’s fifth season with the Tigers. Last year, Jacobian Guillory played in all 13 games for LSU, making one start. He finished the year with 27 tackles and 2 quarterback hurries.

Getting Jacobian Guillory back will be big for an LSU defense that has gotten better and better throughout the 2024 season.

The Tigers have made consistent strides under first-year defensive coordinator Blake Baker.

Guillory also spoke about what it’s been like watching the Tigers play without being out on the field.

“Wishing I could be out there pushing the pocket,” he said. “But I mean, just watching those guys, sometimes those guys make me want to stand up.”

Guillory has been consistently making progress throughout his rehab and is looking forward to getting back to full strength down the line.

“It’s been tough, because like, you don’t want to go out like that, especially like, not even for myself, but for my family,” he said. “They were so hyped up to watch my senior season… but this is like a blessing in disguise because I get to spend more time at home with my son and just learn the game more.

“Just attacking it every day like I would a practice. So attacking my treatment like a practice and stuff like that. That’s all I can really do.”