Ja’Marr Chase puts to bed a ridiculous LSU debate and has the irrefutable facts to back up his point
Ja’Marr Chase defends 2019 LSU in a hypothetical matchup against the 2025 Indiana Hoosiers.
Former LSU wide receiver and five-time Pro Bowler Ja’Marr Chase made it clear what he thinks of the 2019 Tigers going up against the 2025 Indiana Hoosiers in a hypothetical matchup.
Chase wouldn’t give Indiana a shot in the dark.
“Bro there’s no chance,” Chase said in an interview with Overtime. “Bro, there’s no chance.”
Chase won the Biletnikoff Award in 2019 as the nation’s top receiver, and he was far from the only dominant player and future NFL star on the roster. Joe Burrow, Justin Jefferson, Terrace Marshall, and Clyde Edwards-Helaire were all featured weapons on offense, but Chase first pointed to the other side of the ball when making his argument.
Ja’Marr Chase recounts sheer talent of 2019 LSU starters
Indiana became an undefeated underdog story led by quarterback Fernando Mendoza. Taking down the Hoosiers in this dream contest would first require stopping the likely No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Chase isn’t worried about that.
“You know who we had on that backend,” Chase asked.
Safety Grant Delpit, cornerback Derek Stingley Jr., and linebacker Patrick Queen were mentioned in the interview, but Chase didn’t stop there.
“It was 22, damn near the whole starters went to the league,” Chase said. “That’s what I’m saying.”
37 players from the 2019 squad were NFL Draft picks, ranging from Burrow as the No. 1 pick in 2020, to CB Kary Vincent Jr. as the No. 237 pick in 2021. Chase went No. 5 in that same year.
Not all 22 starters from the National Championship were draft picks, but every single one, like Chase said, made it to the NFL. Tight end Thaddeus Moss, left guard Adrian Magee, and defensive lineman Glen Logan were the only starters to go undrafted.
It’s still ridiculous looking back over five years later seeing just how stacked the Tigers really were that year, but there’s a reason they averaged 48.1 points a game and won 15 games by an average differential of 26.5 points.
Indiana was a great story and team in its own right, scoring 41.6 per game and beating teams by an average of 29.9 points. They even won one more game in comparison to LSU due to the expanded College Football Playoff. The Hoosiers will surely hear plenty of their own players called during the draft.
But there are levels to this that Mendoza and Co. couldn’t match. The talent and chemistry of 2019 LSU will go down in history, and largely uncontested.
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