LSU True Frosh Harold Perkins WRECKED Arkansas With 4 Sacks And 2 Forced Fumbles In The Tigers' 13-10 Win
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College football recruiting is such a crapshoot, and at programs like LSU where there's been so much talent for years — especially on defense — you can't get a great feel for whether or not a true freshman can make a massive, immediate impact.
Welp, in the case of Harold Perkins, that ain't the case. The 5-star prospect who 247Sports had ranked eighth overall in the class of 2022 just absolutely destroyed Arkansas, and LSU needed every single play he made in a gritty, low-scoring SEC clash.
Despite being so early in his football career, Perkins already has the ability to harness his crazy physical tools and bend around the edge like this:
WTF is that, even? Casually defying gravity more or less. Look how he closes FAST on the poor Razorbacks quarterback after the play-fake here:
This instance of closing speed from earlier on might've been even MORE impressive since Perkins had more ground to cover:
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Last but not least, the play that ended the game:
SHEESH. He's only listed at 6-foot-2, 220 lbs, so there's room for Perkins to pack on at least another 20 pounds to his frame. The fact that he's able to make this many disruptive plays in the backfield at that weight, and that he plays off the ball? Imagine what some added functional strength could do.
I hate to even make this comparison and it might seem rash: Are we seeing the next Micah Parsons develop before our eyes? I don't think that's hyperbolic to say. Parsons was a straight-up linebacker at Penn State and is pretty much unblockable when he lines up on the edge in the NFL for the Cowboys. I could see Perkins making the move to EDGE full-time while he's still in Baton Rouge, or honestly, the Tigers could just keep moving him all over the place across the front seven.
Whatever the case may be in terms of how Perkins is deployed going forward, it's safe to say this is a special, special talent to watch in the next two years before he inevitably goes pro.
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