LSU’s 2026 football roster is now at capacity, though the final additions are not the two names that had been fueling speculation across the college football landscape in recent weeks.
According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Lane Kiffin and LSU completed the 105-player roster by adding Aiden Anding and Gabriel Reliford, a move reported Tuesday night.
With those spots now taken, LSU no longer has room to add Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris, two players who had each spent time with NFL teams earlier this year, to the 2026 roster.
Wright and Harris were already enrolled at LSU, but they were not placed on the roster before the Tigers’ win over Clemson, leaving them unavailable for Saturday’s game.
Thamel had previously noted that Wright and Harris remained possible candidates to join LSU football later in the season, since the program still had two open roster spots at the time.
But with Anding and Reliford — who have previously played with the Tigers — joining the team, the active roster is full and no longer gives LSU the room to add Wright or Harris.
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Wright and Harris scored a legal win at the end of last week that would allow them to play for what would be their fifth season in college football, even after spending time in the pro ranks this summer.
The SEC, on the same day, filed a lawsuit in Alabama against LSU and head coach Lane Kiffin, alleging the parties would be violating the conference’s First Amendment rights by going against conference rules and values.
The conference amended the suit on Tuesday, as it said SEC CEOs plan to meet on Thursday to decide whether LSU can continue to be a member institution. The SEC requested a temporary restraining in its amended filing to stop LSU from potentially blocking the meeting.
Louisiana Tech on Sept. 6, 2025 in Baton Rouge, La. Getty Images
Now that LSU has decided not to add the NFL players to its roster, it’s not clear if the conference leaders will still meet or if the roster move is satisfactory enough to end the legal matters.
In the middle of all the roster drama, LSU won its first game under Lane Kiffin in a 51-10 rout over Clemson on Saturday.
LSU moved up from No. 11 to No. 8 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll.