Brian Kelly says an illness going through LSU locker room

If LSU wants to have a shot at winning another SEC Championship and competing for another national championship, the Tigers must stay healthy. I mean that in more ways than just being the usual football injuries. The players have got to be able to fight off illnesses.

Brian Kelly recently revealed that a few players on the team have been dealing with an illness that has kept them from participating in practice. It is hard enough to deal with any illness, but add to that practices in full pads on what could be a 100-degree day and you have a recipe for disaster.

“So, we’ve had a bug going around, a lower GI bug. Through the o-line. And Emery Jones was affected greatly from it today. You saw he was in and out. He probably shouldn’t have been out there, but you couldn’t keep him from practice. That’s what he was suffering from. We sent him home,” Kelly said, per On3.

“I don’t know how Whit Weeks and West Weeks made it through practice. They had a similar bug. We’ve sprayed the offices. We’ve cleaned them down. But you know, we’re fighting that now with a number of guys.”

The Tigers will need to be 100% healthy if they want to win their first season opener since 2019.

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