re: Predict Stat Leaders for 2014 football team

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He could get the Jeremy Hill treatment, where coaches try to save him for the tougher teams on the schedule. I think coaches will trust him more early on though then they did with Hill/Hilliard.

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That wasn't the case for Hill. Hilliard had just came off a very good 5-6 game stretch of football for a true freshman the previous year. Ford and Ware had both had over 700 yards the previous year. Blue had over 500 yards and 7 TDs himself as the 4th string RB. Added to the fact that Blue and Hilliard were one of the top back combos in the nation during the first 3 games of the 2012 season, there was no reason to play Hill much. Hell Magee had to switch positions.

Fournette's position is way different than Hill's. Where people forget that Hill was just a four star with four RBs ahead of him who all had good years the previous year, Fournette doesn't have that hill (no pun intended) to climb. Not only is he faster and stronger than Hill, he can already catch like a WR, and only has two less than ideal RBs to beat out. Magee was relegated to WR in 2012 and had to climb his way to back up last year. Hilliard hasn't been his 2011 form since, well, 2011.

Fournette should get no less than 170 carries next year. Hill got 145 and he only played 8 and a half games.