Early in Jayden Daniels’ career at LSU, head coach Brian Kelly almost seemed to suggest that he wished his eventual Heisman Trophy winner would throw more interceptions.

His point was that Daniels needed to take more chances, to quit waiting for receivers to break wide open, to occasionally trust his strong fast ball in risk/reward situations.

Just say that that hasn’t been a major problem this year with Garrett Nussmeier, at least not lately. Apparently there are limits.

The redshirt junior goes into Saturday’s LSU-Florida game with six turnovers in the Tigers’ last two games — five interceptions and a lost fumble.

All have been costly in consecutive losses to Texas A&M and Alabama.

So maybe Kelly should have been expecting the question Wednesday on the Southeastern Conference coaches conference call.

But he quickly brushed aside any notion that the Tigers might consider replacing Nussmeier.

“No,” he said almost before the questioner finished asking. “Absolutely none.”

Kelly was just as emphatic when he explained, “He gives us the best chance to be successful … We have to do a better job for him. He’s got to do a better job (but) we believe in him.”

Nussmeier does have the gunslinger reputation common to quarterbacks who’ve never seen a throw they can’t squeeze in there.

Still, it wasn’t a problem early in this, his first season as a starter.

He was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week twice in the first half of the season and his 21 touchdown passes are second in the league, one behind Ole Miss’ Jaxon Dart.

He had two interceptions in the first four games, but he’s up to 11 with two or more in four of the last five games.

“You don’t have to have a degree in football to know that we can’t continue to have those kind of mistakes on offense,” Kelly said.

Kelly was adamant that the turnovers haven’t all been on Nussmeier.

The lack of even a hint of a running game has put more of the offensive burden on him than any quarterback should endure.

During the run of six turnovers in the last two games — a span of six quarters — he’s mostly been running for his life.

The game-changer against Texas A&M midway came when he was scrambling to his left when he tried to throw back to his right.

That’s a no-no in any quarterbacking manual.

On the costly lost fumble last week against Alabama, which came with the game in reach one play after the Tigers got a fourth-down stop, Kelly noted that Nussmeier should have had two hands clutching the ball when he was stripped from behind.

But it was also true that the Bama defender roared in scot-free to the backfield past center D.J. Chester, who had no one to block but only watched and pointed as Jihaad Campbell blew past him. The linebacker was as undeterred as a heat-seeking missile zeroing in on Nussmeier.

The interception in the end zone early in the second half came from a defender who slipped in underneath Nussmeier’s field of vision to snag a bullet pass.

“Unfortunately I’ve seen that same interception way too many times in my career,” Kelly said. “It’s a free linebacker that can just drop and you have to play with touch to the and throw to the back line.”

Kelly said coaches will work with Nussmeier, trying to get better.

There aren’t any other options — just redshirt freshman Rickie Collins of Baton Rouge or junior A.J. Swann, a transfer from Vanderbilt.

Collins has yet to throw an incompletion, but he’s thrown five passes in mop-up duty against Nicholls State, South Alabama and Arkansas. Swann hasn’t played at all.

So Kelly said LSU will stick with Nussmeier, trying to cut down on the turnovers.

“Generally, it’s the basics, the fundamentals,” Kelly said. “If we’re not seeing things the right way, maybe we’re doing too much.”

And footwork.

“Garrett would probably tell you that’s the No. 1 thing he hears from me,” Kelly said. “We had a similar situation with Jayden last year where the footwork needed to be better to get the ball out on time and your footwork forces you into good decisions. It forces you to be where you need to be at the time.”

Kelly is confident Nussmeier will come around.

“He’s been great to work with and he’s been diligent in trying to be the best version of himself each and every week,” Kelly said.