Notre Dame transfer will be at LSU this weekend
One of LSU head coach Brian Kelly’s former players will be on campus in Baton Rouge this weekend.
Notre Dame’s Jacob Lacey, who spent three full seasons in South Bend before entering the NCAA Transfer Portal on October 6, will now add Tiger Stadium and LSU to the list of schools he’s entertaining for his potential next stop.
Lacey has already made trips to Kentucky, Wake Forest and Oklahoma.
Given he’s already a college graduate, Lacey was able to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal and begin exploring his options. The NCAA Transfer Portal window, which opens on December 5 and runs for 45 days, is largely in place for underclassmen who have not graduated but are entertaining the possibility of transferring.
During his time in South Bend under Kelly, Lacey appeared in 11 games during each of his first three seasons.
As a freshman, he recorded 14 tackles with 1.5 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks and a quarterback hurry. As a sophomore, he finished with just four tackles and one tackle for loss. His numbers went back up as a junior, logging 12 tackles, including seven solo stops, and a pair of tackles for loss.
Lacey only appeared in four games this season, with his biggest coming against Cal when he logged five tackles and a pair of sacks. The decision to transfer out of Notre Dame after only appearing in four games meant Lacey could take a redshirt and not have the 2022 season dock him for a year of eligibility. With Lacey also able to take advantage of the extra year of eligibility from the 2020 COVID-shortened season, he has up to two seasons left of college football.
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As a high school prospect, Lacey’s senior season was a memorable one. He was named Kentucky’s 5A Player of the Year in 2018 after he recorded 80 tackles, 34 tackles for loss, 14 sacks, four forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. That production helped South Warren High School to a Kentucky State 5A Championship during his senior year.
He left high school ranked by the On3 Consensus as the nation’s No. 24 defensive lineman, the No. 171 overall prospect in the 2018 class and the No. 3 recruit in Kentucky.
LSU’s defensive tackle group took a hit this season when Maason Smith went down with an injury, though he’s set to return to the field in 2023. He will be joined on the interior by the likes of Mekhi Wingo and Jacobian Guillory, and all eyes are on whether or not Jaquelin Roy will forgo the NFL Draft and return for another year of college football. The other two defensive tackles on scholarship, Tygee Hill and Bryce Langston, have not seen any significant game action this season.
