Joe Burrow was asked to weigh in on the LSU-Jayden Daniels jersey mess, and he made it clear he wasn’t going to be the one to settle it. The Bengals quarterback, who wore No. 9 during his own Heisman-winning run at LSU, got pulled into the controversy simply by being another former Tigers quarterback whose number has sat untouched since he left Baton Rouge.

The dispute centers on LSU’s decision to give Daniels’ old No. 5 to cornerback DJ Pickett, a move that reportedly led Daniels to send LSU a cease-and-desist letter.

Asked about the LSU-Daniels situation, Burrow said he’d only learned about it hours before the question was posed to him. He declined to offer an opinion on how LSU or Daniels should handle it. But when the follow-up came – whether LSU had made him the same kind of promise about his own number – Burrow responded.

“Yeah, they told me they wouldn’t use it again,” Burrow said. “But, you know, you never know what happens.”

The LSU-Daniels Jersey Dispute

Daniels wore No. 5 during his Heisman Trophy season at LSU in 2023, then left for the NFL as the No. 2 pick in the 2024 draft. No LSU player wore the number for two seasons after he left – until now. LSU head coach Lane Kiffin confirmed the Tigers are giving No. 5 to Pickett, and he wasn’t apologetic about it.

“DJ is in [No.] 5, and that was a situation that was promised to him in recruiting here, for him to sign here,” Kiffin said. “I’ve done a lot of research on that with the family and the representatives and the people, so really I didn’t have a decision to make. It was promised to the kid. It wasn’t done for whatever [reason]. I’m not going to get into that.”

According to a statement from Daniels’ spokesperson, his family feels “profoundly disrespected” by the decision, believing the number should have stayed out of circulation given his Heisman-winning legacy.

LSU’s own jersey retirement policy doesn’t actually protect No. 5 the way it protects Billy Cannon’s No. 20, the only number the program has formally retired for football.

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