Former LSU Running Back Logan Diggs Announces His Transfer Plans
Diggs will continue his SEC career in 2024, playing for a different conference rival.
Logan Diggs, a former running back for Louisiana State University, decided to leave Baton Rouge after playing in just one season.
At this point, he has activated his Transfer Portal. Diggs will continue his SEC career in 2024 with Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss Rebels.
Diggs played in 10 games for the Bayou Bengals in 2023 and finished with 653 yards passing and seven touchdowns.
He leaves the program despite being the most used player in a talented backfield. After playing for Notre Dame for two seasons, Diggs decided to move to LSU.
“It was a significant moment for me,” Diggs stated this season after his LSU performance. “It was bittersweet when I ran out the tunnel. I was thinking wow I grew up watching all this and now I’m here and I reminisced about where I came from to where I am today. I found it to be quite illuminating. It’s what I fantasized about my whole life.”
The LSU running back room will consist of Josh Williams, Kaleb Jackson, Trey Holly, and incoming freshman Caden Durham for the 2024 season.
The LSU Transfer Portal Tracker and Their Destinations:
WR Jalen Brown: Florida State
The former 4-star receiver out of the Sunshine State will have four seasons of eligibility remaining, suiting up for the Seminoles in 2024.
Brown selected LSU over a slew of top programs including Miami, Texas A&M and Florida State, among others.
In his final season of prep football, Brown recorded 22 catches, 401 yards and three scores in just six games. He was injured for two games as a senior and had two additional games cancelled. For his high school career, he caught 111 passes for 2,396 yards and 25 touchdowns.
Now, the Top 80 talent in the 2023 recruiting class has found his new home after a short trip on the Transfer Portal.
CB Duce Chestnut: Syracuse
The Syracuse transfer’s stay in Baton Rouge was short-lived, playing in fewer than a handful of games, and will now seek for his third home in three years.
Chestnut, along with Texas A&M transfer Denver Harris, have been gone from the team for over two months while they negotiate their next phase.
Now, Chestnut discloses his next move after hitting the free agency market. Harris’ status is up in the air.
“You know, we’ll have to sit down. We have not sat down with them,” Brian Kelly said of both Chestnut and Denver Harris. “We’re going to wait until the end of the semester and then we’ll sit down and have individual conversations with both of them.”
RB Armoni Goodwin: UAB
Goodwin, who did not receive any snaps this season for the Tigers, has battled ailments throughout his stay with the club which saw his place on the depth chart sink drastically.
As a true freshman in 2021, Goodwin record 16 carries for 65 yards and zero touchdowns, but moving into Year 2 with the Tigers, he gained major snaps.
Goodwin entered the year as the Tigers’ RB1 before a knee injury interrupted his season early. In his second campaign, he totaled 45 carries for 267 yards and five touchdowns.
Once back in a rhythm during Fall Camp in 2023, Goodwin remained a player moving at half speed coming off of an injury.
Now, the former Top 150 prospect in America will come home to play for Trent Dilfer’s UAB Blazers.
EDGE Quency Wiggins: Colorado
Former LSU defensive end Quency Wiggins has disclosed his transfer destination after a short stint in the NCAA Transfer Portal. Wiggins, a teenager with great talent, will head up to Colorado to suit up for Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes.
The former four-star, Top 50 prospect in the 2022 cycle, was a coveted player for the Tigers during the recruitment process.
One of the top defensive ends in America, the hopes were that Wiggins’ development would hit at an efficient rate, but without a defensive line coach this season, his growth was hampered.
A raw, talented defensive lineman, Wiggins became a desirable item in the Transfer Portal.
A guy who still possesses all of the intangibles of becoming an excellent player at a Power Five program, the former blue-chipper now finds a new home with Sanders and Co.
DL Fitzgerald West: Undecided
It’s been a fascinating two years with the purple and gold for West after switching from both sides of the ball during his time in Death Valley.
During the 2023 season, he made the shift to defense where he felt comfortable moving forward. Despite a paucity of playing time, West has discovered his role for the future.
“I like it. I’m used to it. I’ve been playing it basically all my life so it’s natural for me,” West remarked. “I’d say the adjustment learning plays and whatnot though, it’s not too hard for me. I pretty much know the scheme, so I know my task every play.”
OL Marlon Martinez: Mississippi State
LSU offensive lineman Marlon Martinez entered the NCAA Transfer Portal after four seasons in Baton Rouge. The savvy veteran announced his move to Mississippi State this week.
Martinez, who largely played as a backup for Brian Kelly’s team, will enroll as a graduate transfer with immediate eligibility at his next destination.
The 6-foot-5, 330-pounder from of Florida was a member of the Tigers’ 2020 recruiting class and now aims to make an impact sooner rather than later after receiving SEC experience.
Martinez started four games for LSU in 45 games played over four seasons.
TE Jackson McGohan: Wisconsin
McGohan, one of three freshmen tight ends in the Tigers’ 2023 recruiting class, revealed his decision to transfer to Wisconsin.
After playing in eight games in Year 1, McGohan’s skill set excited people within the program, but the LSU tight end depth chart remains packed.
Junior Mason Taylor will return for the 2024 season along with rookies Mac Markway and Ka’Morreun Pimpton. The Tigers also went out and added JUCO talent Connor Gilbreath in July as well despite his prognosis appearing to be at offensive line moving ahead.
Looking out to the future, the Tigers also reeled in coveted prospect Trey’Dez Green in the 2024 class. A four-star Louisiana native, he’ll also want to battle for reps early.
DL Bryce Langston: Undecided
Langston, a former four-star prospect, signed with the Tigers in 2021, but only played in four games with the purple and gold while his stay in Louisiana.
A Sunshine State native, Langston was one of the top signees for the Tigers in the 2021 cycle, but never gained significant playing time with the team.
Now, after continuing with the program and patiently waiting in an era where it’s easy to go in the blink of an eye, Langston has taken a business decision in quest of playing time.
The 6-foot-3, 293-pounder became the fourth LSU Tiger to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal, following running backs Armoni Goodwin and Kevontre Bradford along with cornerback Laterrance Welch at the time.
RB Kevontre Bradford: North Texas
Bradford committed with LSU out of high school in 2020, but after just one season with the Tigers, he announced his departure before committing to Oklahoma.
Despite leaving Baton Rouge and heading to the Big 12, Bradford didn’t even play a snap with the Sooners.
The Texas native would subsequently left Oklahoma and return to the Tigers once again for his second spell, but stepped away from the team permanently before the 2022 season.
It had been nearly two years since Bradford took a snap at the college level, and with Kelly giving him a third chance, it brought depth to the running back group.
Now, Bradford departs once again with a possibility to receive snaps at North Texas, his transfer destination. After getting the opening repetitions of the season at running back against Florida State in Week 1, Bradford didn’t take another snap.
CB Laterrance Welch: Arizona State
A former four-star, Top 150 talent in the 2022 cycle, Welch is a player with great upside as he navigates the next chapter of his playing career. He recently identified Arizona State as his transfer target.
Welch appeared in 96 snaps on defense this season, according to PFF, while also taking work with the special teams squad.
For the Tigers, there remains concern about their defensive backfield with a lack of depth moving forward.
As it stands, LSU holds Zy Alexander, Duce Chestnut, Denver Harris, JK Johnson, Sage Ryan, Ashton Stamps, Javien Toviano and Jeremiah Hughes, among others moving forward.
Both Chestnut and Harris did not suit up for the Tigers during the later half of the 2023 season for undisclosed reasons while Johnson missed the year after suffering a lower-body ailment that necessitated surgery.
