Going into the 2022 football season, LSU Wire will be looking at each scholarship player listed on the Tigers roster.
Over the preseason, each profile will cover where the player is from, how recruiting websites rated them coming out of high school, and what role they will play for Brian Kelly this season.
We’ve already broken down some of LSU’s top transfer portal additions in the secondary, but we perhaps get to the gem of that group in Jarrick Bernard-Converse, a four-year starter at Oklahoma State and Shreveport native who’s using his bonus year of eligibility to take over Derek Stingley Jr.’s spot as the Tigers’ top outside corner.
Jarrick Bernard-Converse Preseason Player Profile
Hometown: Shreveport, Louisiana
Ht: 6-1
Wt: 205
247Sports Composite Ranking
Three Stars | No. 47 in Louisiana | No. 88 Safety
Class in 2021: Senior
Career Stats
Year
G
Total
Solo
TFL
Sack
PD
INT
2018
13
58
48
2.5
1
1
1
2019
12
54
31
2.0
1.5
5
1
2020
11
32
27
1.0
0
7
0
2021
14
51
39
2.0
1.5
11
0
PFF Grades
Year
Defense
Run Defense
Tackling
Pass Rushing
Coverage
2018
70.6
75.7
84.6
63.5
65.2
2019
66.2
76.3
81.2
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61.7
2020
76.0
62.8
46.4
73.3
79.1
2021
75.8
66.1
88.0
84.0
76.2
Depth Chart Overview
With both of last year’s starting outside corners departing in Stingley and Cordale Flott, fixing the secondary was a top priority for Kelly in his first offseason. He did just that by adding Louisiana transfer Mekhi Garner and Bernard-Converse, an Oklahoma State transfer.
Bernard-Converse arrived as a relatively unregarded player seeing as he sat outside the top 1,000 in his recruiting class. However, he quickly made an impact and started the final nine games of his true freshman campaign in 2018. He would go on to start 47 consecutive games over four years tying for the third-most in program history. He moved from safety to corner as a junior.
He finished with 216 tackles (seven for loss) and five sacks to go with 23 pass breakups and two…
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