re: top 10 LSU players of your Era

First games were 1969 season, so I'm old. I'm breaking my list into two, Pre-1995 (Before Dinardo) and Post-1995 (Dinardo Forward)

Pre-1995

Bert Jones
Tommy Casanova
Charles Alexander
Dalton Hilliard
Eric Martin
Leonard Marshall
Alan Faneca
Booger McFarland
Kevin Mawae
Tommy Hodson



Post-1995

Patrick Peterson
Josh Reed
Leonard Fournette
Chad Lavalais
Glen Dorsey
Tyrann Mathieu
Jamarcus Russell
Kevin Faulk
Jacob Hester
Laron Landry

Badger
Faulk
Dorsey
Peterson
Booger
Reed
Fournette
Landry
Hester
Boo


Chad Jones was legit
Collins was the best I've ever seen, until I heard his femur crack at Vandy... Then he went to jail. frick.

1. Billy Cannon
2. Honey Badger
3. Patrick Peterson
4. Leonard Fournette
5. Tommy Casanova
6. Glenn Dorsey
7. Josh Reed
8. Bert Jones
9. Charles Alexander
10. Wendell Davis

Those just outside:
Michael Brooks
Morris Claiborne
Eric Reid
Laron Landry
Odell Beckham
Dwayne Bowe
JaMarcus Russell (show never give tons of money as signing bonuses)
Chad Lavalais
Kevin Faulk


OL are not getting enough press, but LSU has had some great OL in the last 40 years:

1. Alan Faneca
2. Eric Andolsek
3. Ben Wilkerson
4. Kevin Mawae
5. Andrew Whitworth

I am not falling for this attempt to determine how old I am.



And disregard any numbers in my username to figure it out!

In no order:

1. Cecil Collins
2. Kevin Faulk
3. TM7
4. PP7
5. Dorsey
6. LF
7. Key
8. Minter
9. Landry
10. Beckham Jr

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IIRC, Faulk still owns the SEC career all-purpose yards record (6,833 yds) which has stood for nearly 20 yrs

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Another nuance to this is that (I think) we play more games now than we did back then. If I remember this correctly then it makes this 20 year record even more significant.