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Brian Kelly offers early impressions of Bryce Young, calls it an ‘enormous challenge’ for LSU’s defense
By Keith Farner
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Brian Kelly and LSU have had a tall order already to defend mobile quarterbacks like Anthony Richardson and Jaxson Dart, but the LSU coach said Alabama’s Bryce Young is in a class by himself.
“They’ve all been so difficult to defend and this will be the most difficult,” Kelly said. “I think what’s most difficult with him is improvising. His ability to improvise, and as he improvises, he’s making plays. He’s getting the ball out to skill players. An enormous, I think, challenge, for our defense to contain him in some fashion. Maybe you have to look at how do you slow him down a little bit, because he just is that good of a player.”
Young returned against Tennessee after he missed the Texas A&M game and tied his career-high total for completions with a 35-of-52 night. He accumulated 455 yards and 2 scores through the air and helped the Tide to points on 7 of the team’s 11 drives, including 5 touchdowns.
Last week against Mississippi State, last year’s Heisman Trophy winner was 21-for-25 passing for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns in the 30-6 victory.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
