Grambling State updates Jaquavis Richmond's status following successful surgery

Following a scary scene in the LSU–Grambling State game on Saturday, the GSU administration had a positive update to share on Jaquavis Richmond on Sunday afternoon. Richmond had been taken off the field on a stretcher in the second half of Saturday night’s game.

On a play around halfway through the third quarter, Richmond, a linebacker, was involved on the play and suffered a significant injury. After being surrounded by teammates while down on the field, Richmond gave a thumbs up as he was taken off.

He had a successful surgery on Sunday and the school shared an update on their Twitter page from the Grambling State Vice President for Athletics.

You can also read the statement typed out below.

Grambling State Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics @TrayveanScott provides an update regarding GSU football player Jaquavis Richmond. pic.twitter.com/iRVe00W0c0

— Grambling State Athletics (@GSU_TIGERS) September 10, 2023

Grambling State statement on health of Jaquavis Richmond

“During Saturday night’s contest at LSU, GSU linebacker Jaquavis Richmond suffered an apparent injury to the head/neck area. He was taken to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center where he has received exceptional care from the wonderful medical staff.”

“This morning he underwent successful surgery to address the injury. The department of athletics would like to thank the GSU Sports Medicine Staff, Ochsner LSU Health, GSU Athletic & Administrative Staffs, GSU President Richard “Rick” Gallot, Jr., LSU President Tate, AD Woodard, Deputy AD Ausberry, Associate AD for Sports Medicine Micki Collins and their respective staff’s for their assistance and response last night.”

“Once again, we want to thank the wonderful athletic trainers and medical staffs of both Grambling State, LSU, and Our Lady of The Lake Regional Medical Center on the extraordinary care and response to Jaquavis.”

“At this time, there will be no further comment on the matter,” Dr. Trayvean D. Scott–Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics for Grambling State University

LSU managed to get a bad taste out of its mouth after a season-opening loss

As crushing as last season’s loss to Florida State was a season ago, this year’s Top-10 matchup might have been even worse for LSU. After FSU snatched overtime from them on the final untimed down in 2022, 2023’s edition was a beatdown as the No. 8 Seminoles won 45-24, and were up 45-17 before a late touchdown with about a minute to go, over the No. 5 Tigers.

With the final outcome repeating itself, FOX Sports’ Joel Klatt believes the people in Baton Rouge have every reason to find this annoying. While it’s not time to jump ship on LSU yet, he did highlight why the mistakes from this game were as frustrating as they were considering how last year’s game and campaign played out.

“I don’t quite think it’s time to panic for LSU. But, boy, it’s time to be frustrated,” said Klatt on his show this week. “How should LSU feel? Frustrated.”

“They made mistakes on the field last year that can be explained away because you had a new coach and kind of a new team with some transfers in there. It’s like, ‘It’s okay, we played better by the end. We won the SEC (West)’. And there was this sentiment that it was like, ‘Well, that’s going to change’. And, ‘We won’t make those same mistakes early in this season,’” Klatt said. “Guess what? It happened again.”

But with a 72-10 beatdown of Grambling, the Tigers are 1-1 and can start to build on what could still be an impressive season.

On3’s Andrew Graham also contributed to this article.