I have seen Fournette disappear completely when playing a quality defense. He does tear it up against average or poor defenses. He hasn't done that much in the passing game coming into this year. He has averaged three catches per game in the four games he has been healthy enough to play this season which is WAY above his career average. Another red flag there on durability.

Fournette Career Stats

Another quality post (sarcasm). Just this year he ran for over 100 yards against both Wisconsin and Auburn (138 against Wisconsin), who both have very good defenses this year. And he was not close to 100% healthy in either game. He's still not 100% now, at least in terms of being in game shape after missing three weeks, and he STILL ran for 284 last weekend.

Last year he had 180 yards against Florida, who had a top defense and he also ran for over 140 against them as a freshman when they also had a good defense. He had over a 100 yards as a freshman against what was a very good Ole Miss defense that year. He had almost 160 against a pretty good Miss St defense last year.

What do want him to do? Play top ten defenses every week? Nobody does that. Most defenses in college football pretty much suck. Yet you don't see anyone doing what he has done the last two years, do you?

The only time he really got shut down in the last two years was against bama last year. The line gave him ZERO room. Nobody can find a hole and run through it when they have two or three guys in the backfield when they first touch the ball.

As for his receiving numbers, have you paid attention to all of us who have been saying why Les Miles needed to go? He refused to use any imagination in his offense. All he wanted to do was line up and run, and throw as a last resort. Yet, with all that predictability, Leonard managed to lead the nation in yards per game.

Now that he is being allowed to run out of the backfield and catch passes, we get to see what he can do. There is nothing he can't do at his position.

How many passes does Adrian Peterson catch, anyway? Some of you guys are just determined to find a reason to doubt Fournette. I can't get over how ridiculous some of these excuses are.

Yea BM the excuses are crazy & correct me if I'm wrong but I believe he had 100 yards in every game last year except for 1 to deny the talent of this guy is ridiculous even without a QB knowing your going to get the ball it's almost APish(Adrian Peterson) what cant he do? is the question as long as there isn't any tendon or ligament tears no red flags for me even still you wouldn't know it IF you watched him play