The Real Deal: The Weeks Brothers Talk Family & Football
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LSU Sports
4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Three brothers, one team. Whit Weeks, West Weeks and Zach Weeks, also known as "The Weeks Brothers," join the latest edition of The Real Deal to talk about their childhood, hobbies off the field, LSU Football, NIL & more.
Whit, the leader of the LSU defense and one of the nation’s top linebackers, enters his junior season for the Tigers, after earning First-Team All-SEC in 2024.
West, a veteran linebacker who joined LSU in 2022 after playing his true freshman season at Virginia, is a fifth-year senior in 2025, and is expected to play a significant role for Blake Baker's unit.
Zach, a freshman and former four-star prospect, joins his brothers in the LSU linebacker room with hopes to see the field in some capacity this season.
Programming note: this was recorded on June 19th, 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | on July 1st, |
| 0:02.3 | we didn't ask it a profit off name, image, and lightning. |
| 0:05.8 | Okay. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of the Real Deal podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm your host, Jamar Lincoln, assistant Director of NIL, and we got some history |
| 0:21.9 | with us this evening. The first linebacker trio of brothers in LSU history, between them in high |
| 0:27.5 | school, the brothers boast Army All-American and Navy All-American honors, as well as highly-rated |
| 0:32.4 | recruits in the state of Georgia. From racing to see who could clean the house the fastest |
| 0:36.5 | to earning SEC All-American |
| 0:38.1 | honors, competition, growth, and brotherhood have shaped their journey. For the first time in their |
| 0:43.2 | careers, they are set to play together in Tigers Stadium this season. From Watkinsville, Georgia, |
| 0:48.2 | to my left, we got West and Witt to my right. We got Zach Weeks, the Weeks Brothers. |
| 0:53.9 | How we doing, fellas? Good, thank you for having us. Come on, now. The gang's all here. my right. We got Zach Weeks, the Weeks brothers. How we doing, fellas? |
| 0:55.0 | Good. Thank you for having us. Come on, now. The gang's all here. |
| 0:59.3 | Man, this is like, and we got to start off talking about it. For you, West, I'm an older brother as well. |
| 1:07.4 | To hear your youngest brother, you have the opportunity, he has the opportunity to play with you for the first time ever. |
| 1:13.3 | How did that make you feel? |
| 1:14.6 | Honestly, it still hasn't really hit me 100% yet. |
| 1:17.7 | Like, it's still crazy me to think about because me and Zach have never been on a team together. |
| 1:22.5 | And to get this opportunity to do it at the highest level here at LSU is a dream come true for sure. Exactly. And with for you, the middle child, how does that make you feel? It's cool because I was able in high school to be able to play with both of them. My freshman sophomore, you're playing with West, then my senior year, you're playing with Zach. But now to all three be on the same team, like none of us would have ever |
| 1:44.7 | imagined that this would be possible. No, definitely. And Zach, for you, I guess you're like, dang, well, I'm away from mom and dad, and now I got my two older brothers. I can't really do anything, huh? Oh, yeah. That's good. That's good, definitely. But really just starting off for real. you all are from Georgia, the country similar to me as well. |
| 2:02.9 | Coming to Louisiana in this question, That's good, definitely. But really just starting off for real. You all are from Georgia, the country similar to me as well. |
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