LSU lands commitment from Clemson graduate transfer linebacker Mike Jones Jr.
LSU projects to have a loaded depth chart full of experienced players next season and the Tigers just added to that depth with another defender with plenty of experience playing at the Power 5 level.
On Wednesday, Clemson graduate transfer linebacker Mike Jones Jr. announced he will be continuing his playing career in Baton Rouge.
“Make your next move your best move,” Jones tweeted with the graphic below.
Jones started for Clemson last season, racking up 26 tackles, four tackles for loss, two interceptions, two passes defended and a forced fumble in nine total appearances. He left Clemson after registering 46 total tackles and a half sack.
While arriving in Baton Rouge as a graduate transfer, LSU’s new linebacker has three seasons of eligibility remaining as he left Clemson following his redshirt sophomore season and has the ability to take a free season of eligibility in 2020.
Jones is a Tennessee native but finished his prep career at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., and was rated as a top 200 overall prospect and the No. 15 outside linebacker in the country for the 2018 recruiting cycle.
Following his commitment to LSU, the Tigers have officially announced Jones has signed with the program.
Hold That Tiger!
Linebacker @_mjones24 is Callin' Baton Rouge#GeauxTigers | https://t.co/2gIBrOGSr4 pic.twitter.com/8Dhv8Rt7zj
— LSU Football (@LSUfootball) February 10, 2021
Congratulations???
Is this what you had in mind with Coach Whiteboots? Bottom scraping out of the quitter hole? Ok I guess.
Swing and miss in recruiting this year. Big time swing and miss in coaching hires and now…The quitter hole for linebackers of all things.
That number 3 ranking is very “Milesean”, now isn’t it. High in number but very hollow where it matters. Is it not laugh out loud apparent now, who Dacoacheaux’s greatest mentor actually was?
Oh and reinstate Pandy Fackler. He’s good people.
Peeeewwww dis gump knows LSU gonna skull fugg those gumps in TuscaLOSE next year and it shows! Geaux tigahs!
LMAO. Gumps gonna gump.
Imagine a Gump so obsessed with LSU.
Kinda embarrassing … and sad. :D
Look, Guys. Just ignore PresGump.
He is either trying to deal with the man-crush he has for Coach O
or he’s just another unemployed gump with too much time on his hands.
Don’t agree about scraping the bottom as there are a lot worse LBs currently in the TP but I gotta admit…quitter hole, that is hilariously accurate, kudos Truvol
COWARD!
Who?
Michael Jones Jr.
No idea why he would transfer from Clemson, but we are happy to have him. He certainly adds to the LB competition.
Clemson should be in decline for the next few years…that 100% player unity/family-atmosphere is not what it once was. Dabo’s outgrown all that now, since he’s living in his mega $$$$$ lakefront mansion now.
He left because he lost his job to a true freshmen. Also, Dabo’s house is in a subdivision right outside town, not on a lake. You’ve got him confused with Saban.
Pretty good player. LSU fans should be excited. Especially because he has a similar frame to Devin White.
“I’m Mike Jones, (Who?) Mike Jones
The one and only, you can’t clone me
Got a lot of haters and a lot of homies, some friends and some phony.”
Damone Sam
Micah Mike
Mike Will
Thats how I see it panning out.
Damone and Mike Jones first round linebackers NFL Draft 2022… and you baws thought we were weak at lb!?!!!
We comin, and we ain’t backin down!
SEC champions 2021
It’s good to have a LB with starting experience, but I would be cautiously optimistic. Just because he started a few games at Clemson doesn’t mean he’s great. He has competition at LSU. Good move for depth.
Look, Guys. Just ignore PresGump.
He is either trying to deal with the man-crush he has for Coach O
or he’s just another unemployed gump with too much time on his hands.
Don’t get me wrong, … this IS a position of need. What I want to know is why he is leaving Clemson? It looks like he was getting plenty of starting time.
This has Blake Baker written all over it…
He is a beast in coverage… second year in a row we have gotten the best coverage lb in the portal!
Let’s geaux!
Serious question…if elite recruiter coaches, which I think EdO certainly is, continue to bring in TP plug and play types over developing the young recruits they so aggressively went after and convinced to LOI, how long before we see a regression in recruiting at LSShoe? It is no coincidence that the better coaches have gotten at securing disgruntled top level talent to join their program, the worse their recruiting classes have become. For example look at CDM at UF. For his first 2 years his recruiting classes vastly improved but as his TP recruiting skills have been highly recognized as one of the best, his incoming recruiting classes are now falling off significantly. He’s gone from two consecutive top 10 classes back down to one lower than when he first began and the per player ranking is at it’s lowest level in 5 years. IMHO I think kids start recognizing which coaches excel at loyalty and which coaches don’t. If I’m one of a few high 4* LB recruit in my 2nd year developing in a program and my head coach brings in a quitter from another program to compete for my starting LB position without having suffered thru the rigors of in team competition, eventually this perception has to negatively affect recruiting, yes? I mean let’s face it, the two worst coaches at grabbing talent out of the TP are the two best coaches at getting their teams to the CFPs – Nick and Dabo. Just sayin…
It’s a new world now with the transfer portal. Remember a transfer by the name of Joe Burrow? I do!
I would expect Smart’s recruiting to fall off the cliff because he brought in two transfer quarterbacks last year to fill a gapping hole. How does that logic sound?
Fair enough point engine…and to your point Dwan transferred in and then out, and I imagine the only Kirby recruit QB Carson Beck will too if he is passed up on the depth chart. Nature of the beast I suppose, the TP has a function to provide some semblance of parity between the recruiting machines and the not so much machines….
Humper interesting point about Saban and Swinney. I don’t think it will necessarily affect recruiting as much as it will just keep the TP full when the maybe rightfully disgruntled long-time team members are “replaced” by incoming transfers and decide to transfer themselves. But I think you’re right if it becomes the obvious MO of a coaching staff then I’d have to think twice as a recruit and stick with the Dabos and Nicolases of the world.
Yeah that’s probably a fair opinion, the elite recruiters will get their share and the rest have to TP to contend…and occasionally end up with a Burreaux gem that slants the odds. Saban will always get the best of the best because he’s the best at recruiting and development. Dabo will always get the best born agains because he’s the best born again recruiter and developer. Kirby, Ed, Ryan are works in progress and are trying to master the Goat’s process. Coaches like Dan will never be upper crust top 5 recruiters because let’s face it, first impressions are everything in recruiting and even an immature snot nosed elite 18 yo athlete can spot a greasy used car salesman! Lol, ok sorry I couldn’t resist, ol Mullet, it’s my Achilles heel! If I make it to next year he’ll be at the top of my new year’s resolutions, I promise!
Ok Humper you got me chuckling this morning, thanks for helping me start the weekend right.
You’re spot on about Dabo and Nick, they don’t really need the TP. Ed O is rocking the recruiting right now and is also adept at the TP so fingers crossed for us that we can dig out of the hole we landed in last season.
Oh yeah good luck with your New Year Resolution 2021 may Mullen find redemption in your world.
You’re right, EdO is killing it with recruiting, I’d expect a huge drop off once he runs outta kids that understand what the hail he is sayin, man gotta way with the English language fo sho! Cheers rockymtnkat…happy Friday mi compadre!
Cheers humper happy weekend. As O would say “Laissez les bons temps rouler!”
This kid’s going to play in a real football conference…the SEC.