re: In honor of 3 days to kickoff : LSU’s greatest runningback

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Charles the Great

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Alexander the Great, but yeah, I agree.

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Not sure any other schools has 3 with 4,0000

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Wisconsin has 6
Michigan has 5
Oklahoma state has 4 and Barry Sanders isn’t one of them.
LSU, Texas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Navy, Wershington have 3.

And Collins was better

You guys have no perspective because of your age
No Heisman - No care.
2008 Class of the National College Football Hall of Fame Election | Induction
No. 1 Pick in the 1960 AFL Draft (Houston Oilers)
No. 1 Pick in the 1960 NFL Draft (Los Angeles Rams)
1976 Inducted Into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame
1975 Inducted Into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame
1959 No. 20 Jersey Retired by LSU Football
1959 Heisman Trophy Winner (Downtown Athletic Club of New York)
1959 AP Player of the Year
1959 UPI Player of the Year
1959 The Sporting News Player of the Year
1959 All-American (consensus)
1959 Outstanding College Player (Columbus, Ohio Touchdown Club)
1959 Walter Camp Memorial Trophy (Washington, D.C. TD Club)
1959 College Back of the Year (Los Angeles Times)
1959 AP Back of the Year
1959 UPI Back of the Year
1959 SEC Player of the Year (Nashville Banner)
1959 SEC Player of the Year (Atlanta Touchdown Club)
1958 UPI Player of the Year
1958 The Sporting News Player of the Year
1958 Outstanding College Player (Columbus, Ohio Touchdown Club)
1958 AP Back of the Year
1958 UPI Back of the Year
1958 All-American (consensus)
1958 SEC Player of theYear (Nashville Banner)
1958 SEC Back of the Year (Atlanta Touchdown Club)
1958 SEC Back of the Year (Birmingham Touchdown Club)
1958 All-SEC (AP and UPI)
1958 Louisiana VFW Award (Louisiana outstanding athlete)
1957 Second-Team All-SEC (UPI)
1957 All-SEC Sophomore Team


Career highlights and awards
3× AFL champion (1960, 1961, 1967)
2× AFL Championship MVP (1960, 1961)
2× first-team All-AFL (1961, 1967)
2× second-team All-AFL (1960, 1968)
2× AFL All-Star (1961, 1969)
AFL rushing yards leader (1961)
National champion (1958)
Heisman Trophy (1959)
2× UPI Player of the Year (1958, 1959)
2× SN Player of the Year (1958, 1959)
2× Chic Harley Award (1958, 1959)
2× SEC Player of the Year (1958, 1959)
2× Unanimous All-American (1958, 1959)
2× first-team All-SEC (1958, 1959)
Second-team All-SEC (1957)
LSU Tigers No. 20 retiredCannon

Running back of the decade AND defensive back of the decade in all of college football.

Oh and he was the punter averaging 37 yards a punt which wasn’t bad for that time.
Who was better? Cannon hands down. You are measured against your peers.

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Teams in canon’s era would be in a division with Milsaps today.

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Right?!?

Let Faulk play on that LSU team against those defenses and he probably rushes for 800 yards a game.

career earnings $21,160,000.00 not counting playoff earnings

shame to think the gov't confiscates 1/2 right off the top

My favorite and I had 4 cousins play at LSU. The Kinchens and Hokie Gajan( married my cousin). Wish I could upvote this 1000 times.

I'm as big a fan of Dalton Hilliard as anyone. And he was a great, great back.

Returning to the Kevin Faulk discussion, LSU has had, in my mind 4 off-the-charts football players.

My definition of this is: A skill position player that you start the game not knowing where they will play. All you know is that they have to start the game and they will not be a down lineman on either side. And they have to play well.

Those 4 are Billy Cannon, Tommy Casanova, Kevin Faulk, and Tyrann Mathieu.

These 4, in particular, embody "football player" as a position.

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You play in the era that you're born. You can't transplant players into different eras. Cannon has no peer in LSU football history. His jersey is the lone one that's been retired. Nuff said.

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I have not clue what your point is, nor do I care, doesn’t change the fact that Faulk is the best running back, BUT Cannon’s jersey number is not the only one retired. The “nuff said” after being wrong was funny though