{"id":834164,"date":"2026-03-26T03:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/834164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:27:22","slug":"lane-kiffin-identifies-3-tigers-who-are-ultra-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/834164\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin identifies 3 Tigers who are ‘ultra elite’"},"content":{"rendered":"

LSU football<\/a> is adjusting to the Lane Kiffin<\/a> era for 2026 spring football practices. That includes Kiffin adding to the LSU staff late<\/a>. Three players caught his attention already, though.<\/p>\n

He lauded the \u201cultra elite\u201d skills of two offensive players and one defender, sharing his zeal for each<\/a> with reporters who attended Wednesday practice. He began with tight end Trey’Dez Green.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Trey’Dez Green) is ultra elite okay, but so is his mindset, and that’s really, really unique to have because they usually don’t coincide,\u201d Kiffin said.<\/p>\n

And who else has stood out in Kiffin’s eyes?<\/p>\n

\u201cTy (Benefield) the safety has it, too, and Jordan (Seaton) seems to have it,\u201d Kiffin said. \u201cIf you were a scout out there watching, you know those three guys would stand out from a skill set of ultra elite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green is the lone holdover from the Brian Kelly regime. He was a prized local recruiting win<\/a> for the previous head coach as the No. 2 Louisiana prospect for 2024. The Zachary native also ranked as the No. 1 TE by 247Sports composite. Ole Miss never offered when Kiffin was head coach. Sounds like Kiffin will unleash him in the fall and take advantage of his 6-foot-7 frame.<\/p>\n

Benefield is making a big jump to the Southeastern Conference. He previously starred for Boise State and guided Mountain West Conference runs there. He’s fresh off piling 105 total tackles with 69 solo stops.<\/p>\n

Seaton boosts Kiffin’s trenches on offense. He once was a prized five-star signing for Deion Sanders at Colorado<\/a>. The 6-foot-5, 307-pounder figures to challenge for the blindside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU football is adjusting to the Lane Kiffin era for 2026 spring football practices. That includes Kiffin adding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,1564,4154,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-834164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-lane-kiffin","10":"tag-lsu-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116293353267650023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}