LSU football relocating due to Hurricane Ida

LSU football is moving due to Hurricane Ida, according to The Athletic. The team is relocating to Houston due to the impending Hurricane and will stay there. They will then fly to Los Angeles on Thursday, September 5th for the team’s season opener at UCLA.

Below is a tweet from LSU’s beat reporter for The Athletic’s Brody Miller.

#LSU football is relocating to Houston due to Hurricane Ida and will stay there until flying to Los Angeles on Thursday for the season opener at UCLA. Ed Orgeron's press conference Monday is canceled.

— Brody Miller (@BrodyAMiller) August 28, 2021

Other teams in the state of Louisiana have decided to relocate before the Hurricane as well. According to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy Tulane football has relocated as well, before the hurricane. They are relocating to Birmingham, Alabama. Here is the the tweet below from McMurphy.

Because of Hurricane Ida, Tulane's football team will relocate to Birmingham to practice for next week’s season opener vs. Oklahoma. The game remains on, as scheduled, at this point

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) August 28, 2021

LSU and Tulane are not the only teams in Louisiana relocating due to the Hurricane Ida. The New Orleans Saints have evacuated and relocated to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas for workouts. The team is prepared to stay in the area until Wednesday, September 1st, according to reports.

New Orleans Saints season outlook

Jameis Winston was recently named the starting quarterback for the Saints, after his top-notch preseason performance against the Jaguars. Check out the gorgeous deep ball he threw to Marquez Callaway below.

Holy moly! Marquez Callaway SOMEHOW came down with this for a TD. Jameis Winston with the deep ball. pic.twitter.com/unp5g0y9kM

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) August 24, 2021

The former Florida State signal-caller connected with Saints receiver Marquez Callaway on both touchdown strikes (one catch is in the video above).

Callaway has been a breakout star for New Orleans in the pre-season; being targeted nine times, catching eight passes for 165 receiving yards and two touchdowns.

Callaway is expected to play a much bigger role in the Saints offense in the 2021 season while Michael Thomas recovers from tightrope ankle surgery, the same procedure that Tua Tagovailoa had performed on his ankle.

Callaway played in 42 games for the Tennessee Volunteers in college. For his entire college career, he hauled in 92 catches for 1,646 yards and 13 touchdowns as a receiver. As a punt returner, he returned 40 punts for 5,543 yards and three touchdowns in his career.

LSU freshman wide receiver impressing

LSU football head coach Ed Orgeron has been impressed in fall camp with one of his young receivers, freshman Brian Thomas, Jr. Head Coach Ed Orgeron couldn’t find enough good things to say about his budding young star in a press conference two weeks ago.

“Brian Thomas is a big receiver with good moves. Big, strong hands. He’s hard to cover one-on-one-especially in the red zone. He can go up and get it,” Orgeron said. “He’s good with yards after the catch with the football. I think he’s going to be one of the great receivers we’ve ever had here at LSU.”

Thomas earned a four-star rating from 247sports.com, and ESPN. He was rated as the 89th best overall prospect in America, according to 247sports.com.