“He didn’t look like himself out there,” LSU head coach Brian Kelly said after the game, following their tough 24-19 loss to Ole Miss. All eyes turned to Garrett Nussmeier , whose game clearly had holes when he struggled, throwing just 197 yards with one touchdown and an interception. The doubts clearly turned towards a possible injury report that actually was true.

Nussmeier has been managing an abdominal strain that slowed him down through the season’s first five games. Brian Kelly’s take? “Yeah, early on, he had an AB strain, not a core injury, in terms of a core injury that we deal with,” Kelly said on October 7. “And it’s been slow to heal, but as I had mentioned, he’s on the backside of that, and he’s getting rest this week.”

Moreover, Kelly is not ready to hit the injury b

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