Domain: tiger-web1.srvr.media3.us Garrett Nussmeier Reveals That His Injury Happened Day 2 Of Fall Camp

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LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier spoke with reporters at the NFL Combine this week and revealed that his core injury happened just two days into fall camp, right before the 2025 season.

The injury limited Nussmeier all season and eventually sidelined him:

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"It occurred in fall camp, day two of practice," Nussmeier explained. "How much did it affect me? I think it was pretty evident."

"I really wasn't able to throw the football. I had stabbing pain in my abdomen every time I tried to throw the football. We weren't able to figure out exactly what it was; it was frustrating. It wasn't LSU's fault or the doctors' fault. They did a great job of taking care of me."

"It was just a rare deal, we didn't figure out what it really was until like 2 months ago. I had about nine days to prepare for the Senior Bowl.

"I made a lot of progress over the last month. Feel much more like myself, which has been exciting."
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BlackPot•7 days
As I admire someone that wanted play his senior season and be there for his team, how the frick did our leadership at the time not say "We're going to sit you out for these tune up games, so you're healthy for SEC play".
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tigerfootball10•7 days
We didn’t have leadership
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Tigerbait8•7 days
Because he had the best odds to win heisman prior to injury. You don’t win it if you don’t play. I’m sure that played a small part of it
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Nix to Twillie•7 days
We did start the season at Clemson
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9Fiddy•7 days
The biggest takeaway from this is that BK is a POS liar. A blind man could see he was hurt, but BK chose to keep running him out there rather than getting him the help he needed to recover. It ultimately led to his firing. If Coach had sidelined Nuss until healthy, BK may have gotten a pass and another year
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austiger•7 days
bummer for the kid... clearly hobbled. offense would've been pretty sick if he were 100%.
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HarryHoudini•7 days
You’d still have Sloan calling plays, so no our offense just would’ve looked like it did a year ago.
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porge7106•7 days
Brian Kelly’s persona is just like a politicians PHONY!!!
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cajunmud•7 days
How in the hell with all of LSU's resources we couldn't find a solution for this and save the season?
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Geauxldninja•7 days
Sooooo what the hell was it? We still don’t know. He just says they didn’t know but found out what it was 2 months ago. So what was it? Will we ever know?
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Jabontik•7 days
It all turned out just fine Garrett. Good luck
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porge7106•7 days
Our leadership was more worried about cashing checks than winning games and putting these kids in a position to succeed.
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jkylejohnson•7 days
Round of applause for BK ladies and gentlemen
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PalletJack•6 days
I'm done dogging this guy but a statement of fact is in order. He was out of shape coming out of the offseason and got hurt. He was probably pushing his conditioning to catch up and created the injury
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TigerCard•6 days
And you base this on exactly what kind of information?
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St Augustine•5 days
One video trying to salvage draft stock and everyone on board again lol. Truth probably somewhere around here just isn’t really THAT good.
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eugene1928LSU•6 days
I admire his toughness to play especially if it’s effective. The sad part is the backup QB, wasn’t good enough to spell Nuss for a period of time for him to heal and become effective. In SEC you need a very good back up QB Or you have a season Like LSU just had, mediocre
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Blueghost1978•7 days
Whatever, lol. You’re a Liability Nussmeier, unless you throw in a Bubble. Great arm, no pocket awareness, and made of Peanut Brittle.
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friendlyobservation•7 days
He was one of the best QBs in the country avoiding the sack before this past season so I'm not sure where you get he has no pocket awareness.
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Shslsu99•6 days
Blueghost is right. As much as people want to put this guy up on a pedestal, he was not fundamentally sound. I am assuming what he was referring to is his inability to read the pocket, he rarely stepped up in the pocket and made many bad throws off his back foot. He also had very questionable decision making, and we all know it. LSU had horrible coaching and one of the worst offensive lines, so I don't totally blame the guy. I do think he is using his "injury" now to make excuses for the NFL scouts.
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LSUMBAgrad•2 days
The Department of Defense has requested Garrett Nussmeier to travel to Iran to overthrow the evil regime!
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Rickdaddy4188•3 days
Nuss was OK to play until he got benched. Then he was too injured. Sure seems like quitting.
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UncleLester•6 days
He shut himself down at the end of the season because even he became aware of how horrible the film that he was putting out was.
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Strannix•6 days
What a clown show, thank lord Woodward is gone
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OpenlyGayDave•6 days
Gosh, I remember the media gaslighting everyone about this. “He’s fine!”
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Bayou•7 days
That injury effected decision making???
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Solo Cam•7 days
Obviously he was hurt

8th grade Garrett had a stronger arm than 5th year senior Garrett. Not being hyperbolic either
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