BATON ROUGE – Ronnie Estay, one of the top defensive tackles in LSU history, will serve as LSU’s 2018 SEC Football Legend, the league office announced on Tuesday.
Estay, a native of LaRose, Louisiana, earned first team All-America honors as a senior in 1971 from Kodak/American Football Coaches Association. He was also named first team All-SEC in 1971 after earning second team all-conference honors in 1970.
Accomplished in the classroom as well, Estay was named Academic All-SEC as a junior in 1970.
Estay anchored a staunch LSU defensive line that led the nation in rushing defense in both 1969 (38.