Seconds after returning to the sideline in the second quarter of LSU’s epic seven-overtime game against Texas A&M last month, JaCoby Stevens was summoned to the phones for a chat with safeties coach Bill Busch up in the press box.

Considering he’d just missed a tackle on A&M quarterback Kellen Mond, which added 15 yards to a 5-yard pickup, Stevens, who made his third consecutive start at free safety that evening, feared the worst.

LSU’s multitalented sophomore thought he was in position to make a tackle on Mond when the Aggies quarterback ran a zone-read to the left on the third play of the second quarter.