I honestly don't know what games you are watching. After watching the first 3 games if there was one back that you would want getting more touches it would be #7. Hilliard and Williams look like solid workhorse types...Fournette clearly looks like the better player.

As for the Peterson comparisons, anyone that believes they have determined Fournette's ceiling or floor based on 30 carries in 3 games is an absolute fool. Basically what it comes down to is Fournette didn't light up Wisconsin..therefor he is not Adrian Peterson. At this point I think some posters might need to go back and watch Petersons first 3 games of his frosh year...and they will come away with a few things....A)Peterson was playing alongside the reigning Heisman trophy winner in senior quarterback Jason White(who finished 3rd in Heisman voting in 2004). B)Not every Peterson run was an 80 yard td run. He actually had 2 and 3 yard runs mixed in as well. C)Peterson wasn't lighting up the 85 Chicago bears his first 3 games. His come out game was Oregon...a team known for offense, not bristling hard nosed defense.(This is in response to posters complaining Fourette didn't dominate "crap" defenses..even though Louisiana Monroes coach said it was the best defense he ever had...which might be mildly better than a crap defense). Wisconsin, despite replacing many players, is a program that has strong run D. Case in point they gave up only 4 runs of 20 or more yards for all of 2013. Wisconsin wasn't just beating up on LF..they were killing everyone...till that NT went down in the second half. The guy who reaped the benefit of better run blocking in the second half was Hilliard. LSU had no margin for error, they were down..wasnt Fournettes time, LSU had to lean on the senior.

The other factor to consider...Oklahoma was force feeding Peterson the ball. Peterson was averaging OVER 20 carries a game, through 3 games. Fournette has carried the ball more than 10 times once this year, yet he is the second leading rusher and will likely surpass Hilliard within the next two games.

So, when you are sitting on your couch patting yourself on the back for determining that Fournette is no Peterson, never will be, and that we'd be lucky to have him be the next Ridley..you might want to take a deep breath, realize you are actually reacting not to Fournettes play, but to your own wild expectations, and that maybe you have overlooked some other factors: Like how defenses might game plan a defending Heisman trophy winner coming off a 40 touchdown season and into his senior year, vs how they might defend a true sophomore qb coming into his second career start(after a first start that included 82 yards passing, and a 36.8 completion pct). Hint hint...there are more reasons for AP running for 400 yards in his first 3 games of 2004 and Travin Dural going for 370 yards in his first 3 games of 2014 than just AP being the next Jim Brown,and Dural being really fast...how the defenses game plan their respective teams has a lot to do with it.

This post was edited on 9/14/14 at 10:50 pm