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I believe Guice will be a better pro than Fournette. Fournette is more battering ram than savvy runner to me. I think he greatly benefitted from intimidation in college. There were times in his career that you could tell safeties wanted nothing to do with him and kind of pretended to be making an effort. I don't think that'll fly in the pros. Vision is the most glaring weakness I've seen from Fournette. Guice can navigate from one side of a phone booth to the other in 10 steps, Fournette just puts his head down and tries to run through it. Guice runs with a lot of instinct. He isn't thinking when he ball is in his hands, just reacting. Fournette is a dangerous space player because of his size, speed, and attitude. I just don't see the vision he's going to need to be Peterson elite at the next level. He's had holes against Alabama. Gaping holes. They just weren't the hole that the play was designed to be ran through. He's not patient in the backfield. That's a great trait when the hole is open and a terrible trait when it isn't. Devonta Freeman sort of runs the same way, he just has one speed and it's full tilt. He's got a lot of wiggle though that Fournette doesn't possess. Not everyone can be Leveon Bell when it comes to patience and vision, I get that I just think it's more than a deficiency in Fournettes game, it looks like a flat out weakness. Given his athletic ability and tenacious playing style though, he's going to be a homerun hitter. I think he'll have a lot of 50 yard games with some 175 yard games sprinkled in throughout his career. Going to a team with a mediocre offensive line is a death sentence for him imo. He's not a create on my own type of player.

That's actually a pretty damn good assessment. Fournette improved a lot from his Freshman-Sophomore year & really improved his pass blocking while at LSU. He has much better hands out of the backfield than he's given credit for imo. His lack of vision is pretty obvious, but he may end up correcting the problem while he's in the NFL. If he does that...he'll be a hell of a RB. He's pretty deadly when he gets to the 2nd level.

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Posted by BigBrod81

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Posted on 2/15/17 at 4:56 pm to GMoney2600

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His lack of vision is pretty obvious

Fournette doesn’t have a vision problem. He had an ankle problem. This past season he did everything possible to limit having to make a cut on his ankle which included taking designed inside runs & bouncing them outside. Those same runs in 2015, he would make his cut off the block of his FB & be off to the races.

From fall camp, Fournette was never right with his ankle & now people are taking the limitations he had from the high ankle sprain & misdirecting that into him having poor vision. It's simply not true. I bet that freshman safety from Ole Miss wishes Fournette didn't have ankle issues this season because Leonard cuts that play back inside & races for the endzone if he could have been able to cut back. Instead, he just tried to run right through the safety.