Baton Rouge – As the 2024 football season approaches, the questions become more difficult. One of the biggest question marks surrounding LSU football is how well their defensive line will perform this season.

The Tigers only return Jacobian Guillory and Sai’vion Jones as starters from last season, and they have brought in many new faces.

The Tigers brought in grad transfer DT Gio Paez from Wisconsin and Jay’viar Suggs from Grand Valley State. Both transfers are expected to see playing time, along with young players like Da’Shawn Womack and Dominick McKinley.

Brian Kelly also brought in defensive coach Bo Davis to take the Tigers’ front line to new heights this season.

LSU hasn’t released a roster yet, but Kelly’s message to the D-line is simple.

“Do your job. I mean, look, that’s not that hard. You know, when we have our guys up front, just do it, they’re physically strong enough to do their job. And I think Bo Davis has done a really good job of just focusing on the technical things that they need to do. And, you know, when you’re shadow, play your shadow. When you’re a three, three, let’s do our job up front. I think we’re talented at linebacker. I think we’re talented on the edges. I think we’re talented that we can get to our spots. We just have to do our job up front. And when we do that and we’re 1/11th of our defense, especially with our tackles, we’re going to be good. And it’s just, you know, trying to do things that are outside the scope of your job description,” Kelly said in his press conference on Monday.

LSU’s starting seven players will face their first big test on Sunday when they face the USC Trojans at 6:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on WBRZ.