SAN FRANCISCO — Four-year letterwinner Jerel Myers put an exclamation mark on his collegiate career on Saturday afternoon in Pac Bell Park, leading his side with six catches for 148 yards — including a 48-yarder down to the 1-yard line on the game-winning drive — as the East came back to win the annual East-West Shrine Classic, 20-17.
Myers, who played an integral role in the Tigers’ journey to four bowls in four seasons from 1999-2003, started the game by springing West Virginia’s Avon Cobourne’s 41-yard touchdown run with a key block and an 18-yard reception on the East’s first possession.
Later, Myers collected a 41-yard reception from Miami’s Ken Dorsey near the end of the first quarter.
On the East’s final drive of the game with less than four minutes to play, Myers caught a 20-yard pass from Dorsey on third-and-14 from the East 24. Then, he set up Cobourne’s game-winning 1-yard run with a 48-yard catch to the West 1-yard line with 53 seconds to play.
In four years with the Tigers, Myers started in 46 games and finished with 149 receptions for 1,843 yards and six touchdowns. Myers closed out his senior season with 17 catches for 181 yards, which included four receptions for 16 yards against Texas in the Cotton Bowl.
Myers, who recently graduated from LSU with a degree in kinesiology, capped his career ranked fourth in school history in receptions and seventh in receiving yards.