Well this guy has made the claim & he has enough experience & clout under his belt in scouting that he has been on the ballot for the Hall of Fame.

Gil Brandt, the vice president of player personnel for the Cowboys from 1960 to 1989, helped Dallas grow into one of the most powerful and popular sports franchises in America. His innovative management and personnel systems are standard operating procedure today for many teams at the professional and collegiate levels nationwide.

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Gil Brandt, a former Dallas Cowboys player personnel executive who now works as an analyst for N.F.L. Media, compared Fournette to Adrian Peterson and Herschel Walker.

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"I have studied him very closely in three games this season, and Fournette is as complete a player as you will see at any position," Brandt wrote. "In last week's game against Syracuse, he ran for a 62-yard touchdown and on the next series he had an 84-yard touchdown run called back due to an illegal-formation penalty.

"Later on, I watched Fournette make three pass-protection blocks and one blitz-pickup block. I also watched him catch passes, another area in which he excels. Fournette is a rare individual who doesn't have any weaknesses that I can see."

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Just 16 games into his college career, the 6-foot-1, 230-pound Fournette has been so staggeringly good he's prompted comparisons to Herschel Walker and Dupree, Earl Campbell and Bo Jackson -- some of the most freakishly great backs who have ever played. The hyperbole around Fournette only skyrocketed more when Walker came out and said Fournette " is better than I was" and longtime NFL personnel man Gil Brandt joined the chorus of folks saying Fournette is ready for the NFL right now.

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He averaged around 2 yards a carry in his college career against the closest thing he's seen to an NFL defense, so I'd pump the brakes just a bit.

Spencer Ware & Jeremy Hill had their struggles against Alabama too. Both of those backs have shown flashes in the NFL. Fournette is 10x as talented as Ware & Hill. It had more to do with the lack of offensive creativity & lack of talent along the offensive line for LSU. It nothing to do the with the running backs themselves.

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Posted by 1BamaRTR

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Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:41 am to BigBrod81

Yes and this is the reason why he's considered a first round lock despite being a RB. He's viewed as being potentially the next great NFL RB but this what people think is going to happen. There were plenty of people (Jim Brown excluded) that thought Trent Richardson was going to be the next great thing too. Every single mock draft and draft "expert" had him going in the top 10 and he did.
If you look at some of the draft busts, many of them were almost widely regarded as bust proof and future all-pros.

I want to make it clear that I am NOT saying LF=TR. I do think LF is capable of being a great RB in the NFL. However he's yet to play a down in the NFL and it's too soon to say matter of factually that he will be an all-pro RB until he does so.

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Posted by Rohan Gravy

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Posted on 2/15/17 at 12:51 pm to BigBrod81

Nice post BigBrod81!

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