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BREAKING: Top 100 recruit Deuce Geralds commits to LSU Football

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LSU has landed a commitment from another Top 10 DL prospect in Deuce Geralds
LSU has landed a commitment from another Top 10 DL prospect in Deuce Geralds

LSU has landed a commitment from another Top 10 defensive line prospect and Top 100 overall recruit in Deuce Geralds out of Georgia.

Geralds picked LSU over a final group of colleges that included Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, and Ole Miss – his father’s alma mater.

In the end, LSU beat out Oregon in a back-and-forth battle that saw the Tigers as the final team left standing.

“It was truly a blessing,” Geralds said at his announcement reveal. “I just appreciate everything.”

The addition of the 4-star defensive lineman comes just 24 hours after LSU landed a commitment from Louisiana defensive lineman Darryus McKinley. Geralds is the 18th commitment in LSU’s Top 10 ranked recruiting class.

The Rivals Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM) picks favored LSU after initially being on Ohio State, then Oregon.

The Bengal Tiger’s Shea Dixon made his final RPM pick in favor of LSU with a 95% confidence score.

Rivals National Recruiting Analysts Sam Spiegelman and Steve Wiltfong were among the experts who flipped their predictions from Oregon to LSU heading into a Saturday announcement.

“The schools the blue-chipper favored at the end are LSU, Michigan, Ohio State, Ole Miss and Oregon,” Wiltfong, the network’s vice president of recruiting and transfer portal, wrote Friday afternoon. “Earlier this summer the Ducks were the strong favorite. As the ceremony draws near, it’s LSU with the momentum.”

That momentum turned into a verbal commitment at his ceremony on Saturday, when the Louisiana native, who was born in Baton Rouge, made his future college destination known as he plans to suit up in purple-and-gold.

While LSU beat out Oregon in the end, the Tigers also outlasted Ole Miss, his father’s alma mater. His father was a standout recruit at Scotlandville High before signing with the Rebels, where he was recruited by current LSU assistant and former Ole Miss staffer Frank Wilson.

“LSU that’s like family over there with (associate head) coach Frank (Wilson III),” Geralds told Wiltfong this week. “He recruited my dad to college. I was born in Baton Rouge. That was my dream school growing up. Then coach Kyle (Williams) being the same type of body type of me as a defensive tackle, him coaching me up would be amazing. He had a successful (13-year) career in the NFL. That would be great getting coached by someone that experienced and the same play-style as me.”

The 6-foot-1, 268-pound defensive tackle is the nation’s No. 93 overall prospect and No. 8 defensive lineman in the 2026 class on the Rivals Industry Rankings.

As more dominoes continue to fall into place around the country, Geralds was one of the last remaining uncommitted prospects ranked in the Top 100.

LSU already has a pair of 5-stars committed on the defensive line in Louisiana’s Lamar Brown and Richard Anderson, who are ranked as the No. 1 and No. 2 prospects in the Bayou State for the 2026 class.

With McKinley and Geralds committing to LSU in the past 24 hours, three Louisiana defensive linemen are on board, one Louisiana native and 4-star out of the Peach State, and a pair of EDGE rushers out of Florida in DeAnthony Lafayette and Trenton Henderson, with Henderson headed into his senior season as the No. 6 EDGE rusher in the country on the Rivals Industry Rankings.

Now, can LSU’s run on August commitments continue – which would in turn push the Tigers back up the rankings in the battle for the No. 1 recruiting class in the 2026 cycle?

LSU will have hats on the table as finalists for August announcements from both 4-star wide receiver Jase Mathews and offensive lineman Darius Gray. Mathews will announce on August 8, while Gray will reveal his college choice on August 22.

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