The first time Tim Detillier met Jarrius "JJ" Robertson, he couldn't see him.
Detillier, the now retired Lutcher football coach, was called to the school office by secretaries in 2015 to meet the precocious 7th-grader, who stands a couple inches shy of 4 feet tall.
As he entered the office, the puzzled coach asked, "Where is he?' with JJ standing a few feet in front of him, behind the counter. The meeting sparked a two-year run for JJ as Lutcher's unofficial mascot during back-to-back state football title seasons.