If college football odds fans watched LSU football at all this season, you know how special an athlete Leonard Fournette is – easily the college game’s best running back. However, NFL running back Herschel Walker has had even higher praise. He told TMZ Sports that Fournette is better as a player now than Walker was while Walker was at the University of Georgia. He said, “He’s better than I was. He’s like a fullback because he can take punishment and keep on going.”
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LSU coach Les Miles wants to put an end to the “what if” talks of Leonard Fournette going to the NFL early. http://t.co/0nhhH5yEuw
— ESPN CollegeFootball (@ESPNCFB) October 1, 2015
Fournette is just a sophomore. If he came out this year, he would go in the first round in the NFL draft in 2016. However, the NCAA how has a rule that players have to stay for three seasons after graduating high school. However, Fournette is NFL-ready today. He started the season with three touchdowns and 159 yards against Mississippi State, but he was just warming up. He ran for 228 yards against Auburn, scoring three times.
He galloped for 244 yards against Syracuse – and could have had 334, because he had a 90-yard run wiped off because of a penalty. Fournette is definitely a front-runner for the Heisman Trophy, and this week they play Eastern Michigan – which gives up more than 373 yards per game on the ground. This could get ugly.