The Story
Perkins was born in New Orleans but relocated to Cypress, about 45 minutes outside of Houston, because of Hurricane Katrina. Perkins grew up to be one of the top linebackers in America and was a pretty dang good running back too. Anybody who was anybody threw Perkins an offer: Bama, Florida, Texas, among others but it was Texas A&M, not LSU, who Perkins committed to initially.
Perkins pledged to the Aggies at the Under Armour All-America game in January but never signed a LOI. He wasn’t a silent commit that signed his papers in December, he was just a verbal commit and not yet bound to Texas A&M, that gave LSU the opportunity to put the full-court press on Perkins.