re: Billy Cannon versus Leonard Fournette

yup, was about to post this.

cannon ran a sub 9.8 100 yd dash (i forget the exact hundreth number, 9.7-something), that's very comparable with fournette's 100m time of 10.65.

i don't think he's as good as fournette, bugga will be the goat when he leaves here, but cannon could have definitely played in today's game and excelled at it. he was also a bad arse linebacker.

he wasn't just fast in a straight line like most white guys, he had good agility, instincts, great footwork and raw-boned strength.

in a modern day s&c program he probably would've played around 230+lbs or more and could've played at 250+. he probably would've been faster if he trained like today's athletes, etc.

in college, cannon was 215lbs of comparatively untrained, natural bad arse. in the pros, he was all pro at two different positions (rb and te) and is arguably the greatest te of all time. led the afl in yardage, played in 6 afl championship games. i think he still owns the titans single game scoring record.

cannon is easily top 5. i would say he's 3rd. argument can be made for second since him and faulk are two different types of backs but faulk obviously played in a much more competitive era so i give faulk the tie breaker.

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