Tag: David LaFleur

BREAKING: Tigers land 2025 legacy tight end JD LaFleur

JD LaFleur is the son of former All-American LSU tight end David LaFleur.

LSU picked up its third commitment in the 2025 recruiting cycle, and this time it’s a player with a last name fans should be familiar with.

Four-star Sulphur, Louisiana, tight end [autotag]JD LaFleur[/autotag] announced his commitment to the Tigers on Tuesday afternoon. LaFleur is an LSU legacy as his father, [autotag]David LaFleur[/autotag], played for the Tigers from 1992-96, becoming one of the best tight ends in program history.

The elder LaFleur earned All-SEC honors twice and Third-Team All-American honors in his final season.

His son ranks inside the top 350 nationally according to both On3 and 247Sports’ composite rankings, though the latter has him as a three-star prospect. LaFleur is a top-15 tight end in the cycle according to 247Sports.

LSU has made recruiting tight ends a big priority since Brian Kelly arrived on campus, and now they’ve landed the top tight end in the state of Louisiana in next year’s class.

[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1389]

Contact/Follow us @LSUTigersWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Louisiana State news, notes, and opinions.

Follow Tyler to continue the conversation on Twitter: @TylerNettuno

2021 mock draft ships Cowboys TE with Rob Gronkowski comps

A mock draft gives the Dallas Cowboys a tight end at the back end of the first round.

The Dallas Cowboys tried to find, if not a replacement, a suitable facsimile of tight end Jason Witten for years. The front office drafted Gavin Escobar, Anthony Fasano and Martellus Bennett a round earlier than the future Hall of Famer. They tried finding hidden gems in the later rounds, hoping to steal some talent. Ultimately nothing they tried mattered, as Witten was able to outlast and outperform them all.

In Brent Sobleski’s most recent 2021 mock draft at Bleacher Report, he has the Cowboys trying their luck at the tight end position again, drafting Pat Freiermuth from Penn State with pick No. 28. Says Sobleski, “The 6’5″, 259-pound target, who caught 43 passes for 507 yards last season, continues to draw Rob Gronkowski comparisons.”

That’s high praise, to be sure. It would also be the first time that Dallas used a first-round pick on a tight end since David LaFleur in 1997. It’s not impossible to think that the Cowboys would continue to throw resources at weapons for quarterback Dak Prescott, but the team may already have their tight end of the future in the fold with Blake Jarwin, who signed an extension in March.

The team will likely have further pressing needs, particularly on the back end of the defense. And while Dallas eschewed the same needs for an offensive weapon in CeeDee Lamb in 2020, it’s hard to imagine them doing that in consecutive years when the sheer number of defensive backs scheduled to hit the free-agent market next off-season is mind boggling.

Four of the Cowboys’ projected contributors are free-agents-to-be. Cornerbacks Jourdan Lewis and Chidobe Awuzie as well as the projected starting safety tandem of Xavier Woods and Ha-Ha Clinton-Dix could all be in different uniforms come next year. That’s without mentioning the rest of the depth the team could be losing.

[vertical-gallery id=650562][vertical-gallery id=649716][lawrence-newsletter]