LSU’s new locker room has been the talk of college football since it was unveiled Sunday evening but there’s a chance the new state-of-the-art facility could not have been built without Tyrann Mathieu and Patrick Peterson.

Both players donated to help raise the funds necessary to complete the project, but perhaps more importantly, they were both All-American players that laid the groundwork to keep LSU among the nation’s elite on the field and in recruiting.