Legendary LSU Running Back Kevin Faulk One of 78 Players Named to 2021 College Football Hall of Fame Ballot

Faulk rushed for 4,557 yards in four-year career with Tigers

Kevin Faulk, LSU's all-time leading rusher and current running backs coach with the Tigers, was one of 78 former college football players named to the College Football Hall of Fame ballot for 2021.

Faulk is the all-time leading rusher in LSU history, rushing for 4,557 yards and 46 touchdowns in his four seasons with the Tigers. His 6,833 all-purpose yards rank fourth all-time in NCAA history and helped him become a three-time first team All-SEC selection. Faulk also earned All-America honors from the Associated Press in 1996.

This isn't the first time Faulk has been on the ballot, also appearing in 2019. 

"To be listed among this group is extremely humbling and a tremendous honor,” Faulk said back in 2019. “I was fortunate during my career to be surrounded by outstanding teammates and coaches and without them, nothing that I accomplished on the football field would have been possible.”

Should Faulk be selected as a member of the 2021 College Football Hall of Fame, he'd become the 11th member of the LSU program to do so, joining Gus Tinsley, Ken Kavanaugh Sr., Abe Mickal, Doc Fenton, Tommy Casanova, Billy Cannon, Jerry Stovall, Charles Alexander, Bert Jones and Glenn Dorsey, who was selected in 2020.

Congratulations Kevin! Geaux Tigers https://t.co/vVAiNolHy0

— Coach Ed Orgeron (@Coach_EdOrgeron) June 16, 2020

After an illustrious career with the Tigers, Faulk was drafted in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots, where he'd spend 13 seasons and go on to win three Super Bowls. The Carencro, Louisiana native retired from the NFL in 2012 and was later hired by the Tigers in 2018 as Director of Player Development.

In the offseason following the Tigers 2019 championship run, coach Ed Orgeron promoted Faulk to running backs coach after the departure of Tommie Robinson.

"The day I graduated high school I knew I wanted to be a coach," Faulk said in a press release. "The coaches I had growing up meant so much to me and the community, and I knew I wanted to be that guy. To coach at my alma mater is the best thing I could ever hope for. I wear the purple and gold with pride every day, and I am ready to get going to help win another national championship."

Membership voting will run through July 7 and where the voters will have to pick from the following Hall of Fame Criteria:

• First and foremost, a player must have received First-Team All-America recognition by a selector that is recognized by the NCAA and utilized to comprise its consensus All-America teams.
• A player becomes eligible for consideration by the Foundation’s Honors Courts 10 full seasons after his final year of intercollegiate football played.
• While each nominee’s football achievements in college are of prime consideration, his post-football record as a citizen is also weighed. He must have proven himself worthy as a citizen, carrying the ideals of football forward into his relations with his community. Consideration may also be given for academic honors and whether the candidate earned a college degree.
• Players must have played their last year of intercollegiate football within the last 50 years.* For example, to be eligible for the 2021 ballot, the player must have played his last year in 1971 or thereafter. In addition, players who are playing professionally and coaches who are coaching on the professional level are not eligible until after they retire.
• A coach becomes eligible three full seasons after retirement or immediately following retirement provided he is at least 70 years of age. Active coaches become eligible at 75 years of age. He must have been a head football coach for a minimum of 10 years and coached at least 100 games with a .600 winning percentage.
• Nominations may only be submitted by the current athletics director, head coach or sports information director (SID) of a potential candidate's collegiate institution. Nominations may also be submitted by the president/executive director of a dues-paying chapter of the National Football Foundation.