SI.com Article: Pride of New Orleans: The youth & promise of Leonard Fournette

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NEW ORLEANS -- Leonard Fournette III is wearing clothes that don't quite fit. They're the right size, mostly, though his biceps are too snug in his sleeves, like grapefruits squeezed into canisters of tennis balls. But that's not the issue here. Something else about Fournette's wardrobe just feels off.
He's wearing the St. Augustine High class uniform -- a white button-down shirt and a tie, with a black pullover emblazoned with the interlocking school logo -- and perhaps that's what's so peculiar. This get-up is for children. At 6-foot-1 and 224 pounds, Fournette looks like a man.
It's a Wednesday in mid-February and he's sitting on a bench in front of the gymnasium, his back pressed to a faded yellow-brick wall. Lunch period at St. Aug has just begun, and students in grades 6-12 are spilling noisily across the blacktop. Fournette tries to blend in, but can't. After all, blending in has been virtually impossible for years.
Fournette, 19, was the top-rated recruit in the class of 2014, according to ESPN and 247Sports.com. He is the most highly touted LSU signee of all-time and has drawn comparisons to Adrian Peterson for his size, speed and athleticism. Peterson even watched clips of the running back at the Minnesota Vikings' training facility last fall before uttering one word: Wow.

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