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STAFF Andy Bryson- Owner/Publisher
Laura Norsworthy– Senior Editor
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Dear Readers, This month we are taking a look at the amazing talent headed to the NFL Draft from across our great state of Louisiana. Quite a few talented players have announced they are entering the Draft this season, and as always we are projecting where we think these players would be a good fit. Coming next month there will be Draft analysis. We also cover training camps, tailgate traditions, spring games, pre season, and before you know it we are back into college football season.
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CONTENTS 2.1.2018 6 Louisiana College Draft Prospects 7 Grambling State Draft Prospects Nicholls State Head Coach,
11 Southern Draft Prospects
Tim Rebow
12 McNeese State Draft Prospects
14 Louisiana Tech Draft Prospects 15 University of Louisiana Draft Prospects 16 LSU Draft Prospects 20 Full Speed Ahead—Chase Fourcade 30 Tulane Draft Prospects
32 Saints Update 34 LSU Draft Prospects Continued
Upcoming Issues Feb
36 University Louisiana Monroe Draft Prospects 38 Diamond in the Rough
Louisiana Players Entering The Draft
March College Recruiting April
NFL Draft
May
Look At Spring Football
June
Recapping the Draft and NFL Free Agency
July
Tailgating Super Issue
August NFL Preseason Sept
College Preseason
Oct-Dec Season Updates
Jan
All-Louisiana Team
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one of our goals that we wanted to make. We won the state and we were undefeated at home. Individual goals, I could have done a little better with my play, but now I’m focused on healing my shoulder up. I’m in therapy three days a week, and I’m just trying to get back and be ready, and just trying to get right.” JS: “So those goals that you may not have met last season, because of your shoulder, are they going to the top of your list this season, or are you setting new goals?” CF: “You always want to better than you were the year before, I really want to be more efficient in games and do what I can to win games, and do whatever I can to help my team out. Be more of a vocal leader, be more of the guy that leads by example and get my team to rally around me. I just want to be that guy they look up to.” JS: “So let’s put you in a scenario here, you’re at Northwestern State, down by 4. You have the ball at your opponents’ 20 yard line with 45 seconds on the clock. You have one timeout left, give me your favorite
play to run in this situation.” CF: “I like to go spread, probably 5 wide and see what they do. Probably put a running back in that slot to match up with a linebacker in man, and if not I’ll probably go outside to one of my big guys a receiver and see if I can make a play with them. Have a nice little slant route or corner route with my slot, or work my running back against the linebacker. I got that timeout left, so I can run a play get about twelve yards call a time out and try for the end or try another run play. But yeah, I’d like to go five wide and get a linebacker on a running back, and that would be one of my easier throws, make the linebacker work.”
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