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11 LSU players named to Preseason Coaches All-SEC teams

LSU is third behind Alabama and Georgia, which have 14 selections each.

The coaches have released their preseason All-SEC Teams, and while Georgia and Alabama unsurprisingly lead the way with 14 total selections each, LSU is not far behind with 11 total selections.

On the First Team, there are three starters on each side of the ball. Quarterback [autotag]Jayden Daniels[/autotag] appears, as does his favorite receiver in [autotag]Malik Nabers[/autotag]. Sophomore offensive tackle [autotag]Will Campbell[/autotag] also appears after a breakout freshman campaign.

Defensively, [autotag]Harold Perkins[/autotag] is a no-brainer, while LSU’s defensive tackle tandem of [autotag]Mekhi Wingo[/autotag] and [autotag]Maason Smith[/autotag] both make appearances.

On the second team, LSU put three players including sophomore tight end [autotag]Mason Taylor[/autotag] and offensive tackle [autotag]Emery Jones[/autotag], last year’s other freshman standout on the offensive line. [autotag]Nathan Dibert[/autotag], who handled kickoffs for the Tigers, made the second team as a specialist.

Two more Tigers players appear on the Third Team in veteran nickel/safety [autotag]Greg Brooks Jr.[/autotag], a transfer addition from Arkansas last offseason, and long-snapper [autotag]Slade Roy[/autotag], who also came as a transfer from East Carolina last season.

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2023 LSU Tigers Snapshot Profile: No. 34 Damian Ramos

Damian Ramos held down the starting placekicker job as a redshirt freshman last fall.

Going into the 2023 football season, LSU Wire will be looking at each player listed on the Tigers’ roster.

Over the preseason, each profile will cover where the player is from, how recruiting websites rated them coming out of high school, and what role they will play for Brian Kelly this season.

We continue our look at the specialists on this roster with [autotag]Damian Ramos[/autotag], who held down the starting placekicker job for the entirety of the 2022 season as a redshirt freshman in replacement of [autotag]Cade York[/autotag]. He appears likely to do so once again in 2023.

Damian Ramos Preseason Player Profile

Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland

Ht: 6-2

Wt: 186

247Sports Composite Ranking

Unrated (Five-star per Chris Sailer Kicking)

Class in 2022: Redshirt Freshman

Career Stats

Year G FGM FGA FG% Long XP XPA XP%
2022 14 10 14 71.4% 47 55 57 96.5%

Depth Chart Overview

Though specialists generally aren’t rated by the typical recruiting sites, Ramos was listed as a five-star (out of six) coming out of St. Paul’s High School in Baltimore by Chris Sailer Kicking.

That roughly corresponds to a player who is capable of starting at an FBS-caliber school as a freshman. Though he didn’t see the field in 2021, he became the starter last season, beating out [autotag]Ezekiel Mata[/autotag] and Northwestern transfer [autotag]Trey Finison[/autotag].

It wasn’t a stellar year for Mata, who went 10-of-14 on the year on field goal attempts. He missed just two of 57 extra points, one of which was blocked on the final play of the game in the loss to Florida State.

He saw some action on kickoffs as well, though [autotag]Nathan Dibert[/autotag] was the primary kick-off specialist. That dynamic seems likely to continue this fall.

Damian Ramos’ Photo Gallery

2023 LSU Tigers Snapshot Profile: No. 31 Nathan Dibert

Nathan Dibert was LSU’s starting kickoff specialist for the final 11 games last season.

Going into the 2023 football season, LSU Wire will be looking at each player listed on the Tigers’ roster.

Over the preseason, each profile will cover where the player is from, how recruiting websites rated them coming out of high school, and what role they will play for Brian Kelly this season.

We’re taking a look at another specialist for LSU in [autotag]Nathan Dibert[/autotag], a sophomore placekicker who spent the 2022 season as the Tigers’ starting kickoff specialist in 11 games. He received Freshman All-SEC honors and was featured on the 2023 preseason All-SEC list while serving as the backup placekicker to [autotag]Damian Ramos[/autotag].

Nathan Dibert Preseason Player Profile

11 LSU Tigers on preseason All-SEC teams

If the preseason All-SEC teams are any indication of how good LSU will be in 2023, the Tigers are looking stout.

If the preseason All-SEC teams are any indication of how good LSU will be in 2023, the Tigers are looking stout.

LSU landed six players ([autotag]Jayden Daniels[/autotag], [autotag]Malik Nabers[/autotag], [autotag]Will Campbell[/autotag], [autotag]Mekhi Wingo[/autotag], [autotag]Maason Smith[/autotag] and [autotag]Harold Perkins[/autotag]) on the First Team, three players ([autotag]Mason Taylor[/autotag], [autotag]Nathan Dibert[/autotag], [autotag]Slade Roy[/autotag]) on the Second Team and two players ([autotag]Emery Jones[/autotag] and [autotag]Major Burns[/autotag]) on the Third Team.

LSU is coming off of a 10-4 season in 2022 in which the Tigers were champions of the SEC West and winners of the Citrus Bowl over Purdue.

The expectations are high for [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] in his second season after [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] and [autotag]Kim Mulkey[/autotag] won national titles in their second seasons.

2022 All-SEC teams loaded with LSU players after SEC West Championship season

Tigers littered the all-conference teams, including six on the SEC All-Freshman team.

The 2022 season was bookended by some frustration as the Tigers lost their opener against Florida State and dropped the final two games against Texas A&M and Georgia.

Still, that shouldn’t take away from what happened in between, as coach Brian Kelly had a massively successful first year on the bayou. LSU finished 9-4 with upset wins over Alabama and Ole Miss that clinched an SEC West title, the program’s first since it won the national championship in 2019.

As one of the top teams in the conference this season, it shouldn’t be a surprise that LSU players littered the All-SEC lists this season, particularly the All-Freshman team, which featured six Tigers.

Here’s everyone who was honored for their efforts in 2022 by the league.