JAQUELIN ROY 2020 PROFILE

#99 

6'4

293

#1 Ranked Recruit out of Louisiana 2020

2x Undefeated ULab seasons in 2017-18

               Ascending from LSU farm University Lab high school in Baton Rouge, Roy always had the technique, wide-ranging athleticism, bruising size, quick hands and multi-dimensional skill to stake a place as a Tiger...Coach Orgeron has been following Roy since the kid was in 9th grade.

              Jaquelin famously committed, then de-committed before finally returning to the fold once Coach Ed Orgeron was appointed head coach....saying Roy "always had eyes for LSU and LSU only" isn't being fanciful or protecting the brand, it's just the truth...24 other schools, including Pete Golding desperately representing Alabama, shouldn't have wasted their time:

“I always knew I wanted to go to LSU, but I wanted to enjoy the process and take my trips and visits and see how different things were around other states,” said Roy. “But I knew LSU was the place for me to go. Coach O always preached to me that the game is won in the trenches and the D-line is where it starts and I’m just ready to play my role.”

“It’s home,” Roy told 247Sports in the summer of 2019. “It’s a home feeling. I love it. I’ve been real cool with Coach O since he was D-line coach. Once he turned head coach it was easy for me to be under LSU more and be around more. Coach Meatball (Dennis) Johnson is a real cool coach, he’s more like a big brother. Hopefully they’ll be a top five team after the season and be playing in the playoffs trying to win a championship.”

              Beginning with a powerful push off the line, a surgical precision in his ability to dissect protections, and a macabre height advantage which affects all passing lanes, Roy could become the chief disruptor within Pelini's Death Force One schemes.

              For a defensive tackle, Roy displays tenacious pursuit and a scary pace rarely seen as part of a defensive tackle's toolbox, completing side to side tackles in or out of the backfield....and while DEs Neil Farrell and Justin Thomas have vacated their spots on roster, there's an absolute possibility we could foresee Roy on the edge, such is his blinding pace.

Although many feel Roy's trajectory is a year away, I feel #99 could compete mightily for one of the two DT positions ans fill time outside; even if he fails to grab the starting role, Jaquelin will find himself flying after quarterbacks, terrifying running backs and administering propulsive pain up the middle.

However considering recent developments on the defensive line, Roy's versatile attributes could offer Pelini and D-line Coach Bill Johnson hardcore reps on the inside or off the edge.

               Considering the path taken by recent Tigers, such as Tyler Shelvin's near departure / having to earn his stripes back in 2018/19 or linebacker Patrick Queen adapting the skills of a LB after years at RB in high school, both of those examples (as well as a long, long list of Tigers playing on Sundays) continues to prove the premium development which supersedes all else under Coach Orgeron....see how solid Roy is now and imagine how freakish he could become...

                The University Lab DT would still evolve: physically thanks to Tommy Moffitt & Shelley Mullinex and mentally from the Bo Pelini school of Hard Knocks, always in the mood to fly into the game and contribute at any time...

                Moreover, Roy is physically ready to start immediately for LSU against tough SEC opponents.

               As he develops, his ceiling is infinite as a defensive lineman, honing in on every move or fake in the backfield, never over-reacting, sprinkling a surreal combination of "effortless aggression", Roy consumes the entire space the runner or passer were about to attack using little more than a whistling wind as he latches on to what remains of their torso.

               Whether in 2020 or the years to follow, Roy will play alongside Guillory in the middle of Bo Pelini's four man front...shifting outside, playing all over the line as Pelini experiments.

             These two, Roy and Guillory, are LSU Bash Brothers, dual vagabond mercenaries now tied to the hip like Butch Guillory and the Bodyslam-dance Kid.

PROJECTION: a surprise starter after a few games

4.0 Sacks, 7.5 TFL, 39 Tackles, 1 FF, 3 PD

BY LONN PHILLIPS SULLIVAN

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