LSU junior linebacker Whit Weeks did not practice on Monday due to "load management," while redshirt junior linebacker Harold Perkins was out the same day because of personal reasons, coach Brian Kelly said Tuesday.

Perkins returned to practice on Tuesday. Kelly did not reveal whether Weeks was back on the field as well.

"He had some things he had to take care of," Kelly said in regard to Perkins' absence.

Weeks has missed time at camp as he works his way back from a dislocated ankle and broken fibula, two injuries he suffered against Baylor in the Texas Bowl in January. LSU has been careful with not putting too much on his plate before the start of the season on Aug. 30 at Clemson (6:30 p.m., ABC).

"We're not going to have him practice five days in a row until we get into game we

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