Harold Perkins Jr to miss the rest of the season with an ACL Injury

The LSU Football team will play the rest of this season without one of its physical and emotional leaders as Harold Perkins Jr has been ruled out for the rest of the season with an ACL injury.

The injury came on a hit in the second half where both Perkins and the UCLA receiver collided awkwardly in a hit where it looked like Perkins may have just been shaken up. The fears became significant as we got a glimpse at Perkins limping his way into the locker room while the broadcast quickly told us it was a knee injury.

The news of an ACL injury is especially upsetting as Perkins was seemingly a consensus first-round pick in the upcoming NFL Draft so you hope the injury doesn't effect his future.

If this is the end of Harold Perkins' career at LSU as he can enter the NFL Draft, it was quite the decorated career for the defensive weapon. Perkins burst onto the scene as a Freshman with three sacks against Arkansas forcing two fumbles before helping LSU upset Alabama the following weekend.

In his sophomore season, Perkins moved to linebacker and while his production slowed he was still a highlight on a really bad defense. This season, Harold Perkins was given the honor of wearing the Number 7 as one of the leaders with his play and his leadership.

This move will lead to us seeing more of Whit Weeks at linebacker next to Greg Penn III. West Weeks slides into Whit's role as the situational linebacker while LSU will need to find another linebacker to move up to the second team defense.

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