LSU’s Faulk named to SEC football legends class
Published 9:25 am Thursday, September 19, 2013
BATON ROUGE (AP) — LSU’s Kevin Faulk has been selected to the 2013 Southeastern Conference Football Legends Class.
Faulk, who lettered from 1995-98, is LSU’s all-time leading rusher and a three-time All-SEC selection in 1996, 1997 and 1998 for the Tigers.
After earning SEC Offensive Freshman of the Year honors in 1995, he was named first-team AP All-America as an all-purpose back his sophomore year in 1996.
He finished his career with 4,557 rushing yards – third in the SEC behind only Georgia’s Herschel Walker and Arkansas’ Darren McFadden – and an SEC record 6,833 all-purpose yards.
Faulk spent 13 years in the NFL with the New England Patriots and was a member of three Super Bowl winning teams in 2002, 2004 and 2005.