BATON ROUGE, La. – Ed Orgeron went to an unlikely place to fortify his kicking game.
Avery Atkins, a kicker from Auburn (Ala.) High, has accepted an offer to join LSU as a preferred walk-on in 2018. He grew up an Auburn fan, but committed to the other Tigers after visiting Baton Rouge last weekend.
“We went down there and loved everything about it,” Atkins said Wednesday on “After Further Review” on 104.5 ESPN Baton Rouge. “ ‘Coach O’ sat down with us for a long time, telling us about himself, getting to know us, which was really important to me.