LSU has a talented running back room entering the 2023 season, but it featured a surprise late addition earlier this summer.
[autotag]Tre Bradford[/autotag] is back for his third stint with the team. Originally signing with the Tigers in 2020 out of high school, appeared in five games as a true freshman.
Following that season, he briefly transferred to Oklahoma but returned after just two months and made one appearance with the Tigers in 2021. He was with the team last spring but left ahead of fall camp, and it’s unclear where he spent the 2022 season.
Bradford is back on the roster now, and coach [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] explained a bit of the long journey it took to get him here.
“The thought process was just giving a man another chance really,” Kelly said. “He had a long road. He had to get back into school on his own, we didn’t help him. He had to do everything and do it on his own… we’re open to second chances here, but this one is on you. You have to prove yourself to the University. And it’s going to be up to the University to decide whether or not they want to re-enroll you. We’re not going to make any calls, we’re not writing any letters.
“If you understand what the guidelines are and you’re able to do that, and then you come here this summer, and our strength coaches sign off on you that you have done everything to warrant an opportunity, then we’ll invite you to camp. And both of those things happened, so he earned a second chance.”
Making an impact in arguably LSU’s deepest position group won’t be easy, but Bradford will try to earn a bit of redemption with his second chance.
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