Josh Pearson is the kind of player coaches love to have but sometimes never find.

Be a team player. Wait your turn. But when called upon to perform, give it your all.

In today’s NIL/transfer portal/post-House settlement era, Pearson is a unicorn. A guy who has, except for last season when he started 52 of 60 games, been a part-time starter most of his four years at LSU.

But he has stuck it out for four years. That’s the rare part. The rarest part.

“That’s my only guy who’s been here in my four years here,” LSU coach Jay Johnson said.

Most college players, if they’re great talents, are gone after three seasons. That includes Saturday’s starting pitcher for LSU, Kade Anderson, even though he allowed a career-high six earned runs in seven innings. That’s one day going to be freshman Dere

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