How Trinidad Chambliss’ Sugar Bowl Performance Impacts LSU Football

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How Trinidad Chambliss’ Sugar Bowl Performance Impacts LSU Football

Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss has been caught in the same peculiar web as most of the Rebels’ offensive staff over the past month or so.

He’s got one foot in Oxford, trying to help take the Rebels further on their Cinderella journey in this year’s college football playoff. The other foot rests amid a series of questions: whether he will be awarded an extra year of eligibility, where he might spend it, and whether he might scrap the idea of spending another year in school entirely and instead head straight to the NFL.

Before the playoff began, many fans wondered if Chambliss would make his way to Baton Rouge to rejoin his head coach Lane Kiffin and offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. for the 2026 season. However, after his 362-yard, two-touchdown performance against Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, it’s starting to look like Chambliss might instead be headed for the next level.

Although many media members who cover the draft are worried about Chambliss’ size (6-0, 200 pounds), NFL scouts don’t seem particularly concerned. AtoZSports’ Destin Adams interviewed several over the past month or so, and their reports were glowing.

“QB3 is wide open, and so many owners are pressuring their top decision makers to find a QB at any means necessary,” said one NFC front office member. “After what I saw yesterday, put me down as someone who would prefer to bet my job on Chambliss than Simpson (Alabama QB Ty Simpson) or any other QB, other than Mendoza (Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza) and Moore (Oregon’s Dante Moore).”

This is high praise for the former D-II quarterback, and it could force the Tigers to go in a different direction at quarterback this offseason. According to On3’s Pete Nakos, LSU is already in the running for a couple of the top names in the portal, so Chambliss heading to the NFL wouldn’t sting too badly if it were to happen. However, if that’s how things play out, it would still be quite disappointing. Having a quarterback of his caliber usher in the next era of Tiger football would certainly be fun to watch.

This article originally appeared on LSU Wire: How Trinidad Chambliss’ Sugar Bowl Performance Impacts LSU Football

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