| Myles Brennan has left the LSU football building. This time, for good. The Tigers' quarterback, vying to be the starter again in his sixth year with the program, found himself down the depth chart and decided he'd had enough. Monday he announced he was "stepping away" from football but expressed his thanks for where his journey has taken him despite its pitfalls. Brennan had a hard-luck LSU career, as I wrote about in my column Monday, his path to potential LSU football glory blocked by a string of transfer quarterbacks and some really outlandish injuries. Here's wishing the young man a long, happy life ahead. While Brennan may be done, the search for LSU's next starting quarterback doesn't stop. It's now basically down to a two-man race between Arizona State transfer Jayden Daniels and redshirt freshman Garrett Nussmeier. The Associated Press preseason top 25 came out Monday as well, and not surprisingly the Tigers were not in it. LSU finds itself outside the preseason AP and coaches' polls for the first time since 2000. Our Leah Vann, who is an AP voter this season, gives her take on the preseason poll and shares her ballot here. Meanwhile, former Tiger quarterback Joe Burrow, who beat out Brennan to be the starter in 2018 and 2019, is back at practice with the Cincinnati Bengals after missing time with an appendectomy. Burrow, of course, is one of only two Heisman Trophy winners in LSU history. The other is the great Billy Cannon, whose No. 20 is the only retired number in LSU football history (Burrow's No. 9 should be one day as well, in my opinion). Monday marked 20 days until LSU's Sept. 4 season opener with Florida State, so we recall the legendary No. 20 in our latest "LSU by the Numbers" book installment. Thank you again for subscribing to our newsletter. We'll be delivering our curated content (I love that phrase) to your inbox every day through football season, so make it your daily habit to check in with us. Until next time, Scott Rabalais | 
