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LSU linebacker Clifton Garrett leaves program

One of the highest-rated prospects in LSU’s 2014 recruiting class has left the program.

LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette confirmed Friday that Clifton Garrett, a 6-foot-2, 242-pound linebacker from Plainfield, Ill., will transfer to another program.

“He’s no longer with us, I don’t know what his plans are,” Bonnette told the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Garrett played in just three games for the Tigers as a true freshman and did not register a tackle. Per the Times-Picayune, Garrett was “slow to recover” from a January 2014 surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder.

Garrett was a Rivals four-star recruit who was rated as the top player in Illinois and the 60th-best prospect in the country in 2014.

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