LSU lands coveted QB recruit to kick off '27 class

Days aft a Week 3 win implicit Florida, No. 3 LSU secured a cardinal committedness and a imaginable backmost for the aboriginal Monday with a pledge from 2027 enlistee Peyton Houston, the top-ranked pouch passer successful the ESPN Junior 300.

Houston, a 5-foot-11, 200-pound backmost from Shreveport, Louisiana, is ESPN's No. 77 wide imaginable successful the 2027 class. A godbrother of erstwhile LSU All-American and Super Bowl LV champion Devin White, Houston announced his committedness to the Tigers implicit finalists Oklahoma, USC, Texas and Texas A&M successful a ceremonial astatine Evangel Christian (Louisiana) Academy).

"It's large staying home," Houston told ESPN. "It's a large feeling for the [family], putting connected for the metropolis and the state."

Houston was connected manus for the Tigers' 20-10 triumph against Florida, and present stands arsenic the archetypal subordinate of the program's 2027 recruiting class. His pledge arrives arsenic a much-needed boost to the backmost pipeline of a Tigers' programme that has struggled to onshore interaction quarterbacks from the precocious schoolhouse ranks since manager Brian Kelly took implicit successful precocious 2021.

Quarterbacks Walker Howard and Rickie Collins -- signed respectively successful the 2022 and 2023 recruiting cycles -- combined to look successful six games earlier leaving LSU via the transportation portal, portion four-star 2024 Colin Hurley signee has yet to instrumentality a drawback for the Tigers. LSU's 2025 people suffered a crushing stroke past November erstwhile the nation's No. 1 wide enlistee flipped his pledge from the Tigers to Michigan weeks earlier the aboriginal signing period. And contempt efforts with apical 2026 passers including five-stars Dia Bell and Keisean Henderson and four-stars Bowe Bentley and Landon Duckworth, LSU is inactive searching for a backmost perpetrate successful the existent cycle.

With starting backmost Garrett Nussmeier retired of eligibility aft this fall, the Tigers existent extent astatine the presumption beyond the 2025 play includes lone Hurley and Mississippi State transportation Michael Van Buren Jr., who joined LSU this past offseason.

As things stand, Houston cannot motion with the Tigers until Dec. 2026. A productive passer with polished mechanics and a speedy release, Houston completed 69.6% of his passes for 4,480 yards with 38 touchdowns to six interceptions past fall, adding 690 yards and 7 scores connected the ground. He highlighted his sophomore play astatine Evangel Christian past October erstwhile helium acceptable a National Federation of High Schools single-game grounds with 817 passing yards successful a ...