LSU lands Oregon State transfer Omar Speights
One week ago, Oregon State linebacker Omar Speights entered the NCAA Transfer Portal.
On Thursday, Speights officially joined LSU’s transfer portal haul with his commitment to the Tigers, multiple sources confirmed.
LSU hosted Speights on a visit to Baton Rouge, which in turn led to his decision to transfer in and play for the Tigers during the 2023 season – filling a big need in the process.
The Tigers entered the offseason with just four scholarship linebackers for spring practices in Harold Perkins, Greg Penn III, West Weeks and early-enrollee Whit Weeks. The fifth and final linebacker on roster, high school signee Christian Brathwaite, will arrive to campus this summer.
Now, Speights is set to join the group at LSU for his final year of college.
Speights will be able to enroll at LSU for the spring semester and take part in spring practices, a source confirmed.
This past season, Speights was a First-Team All-Pac-12 selection. He finished the year with 83 tackles and eight tackles for loss en route to landing on the Bronco Nagurski Award watch list, which is presented annually to college football’s best defensive player.
Across his four seasons at Oregon State, he totaled 308 career tackles.
Speights played high school football at Crescent Valley (Ore.), where he was a three-star prospect. He was the No. 575 overall recruit in the 2019 cycle, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
