50 Facts About Fournette

Leonard Joseph Fournette III was born on January 18,1995 and is an American football running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League.

Fournette played college football for the LSU Tigers, and was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the fourth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.

Fournette had near-unprecedented hype headed into college in 2014 after an outstanding career at St Augustine High School in New Orleans.

Fournette won the 2013 USA Today High School Football Offensive Player of the Year and was named the top-ranked recruit in 2014 senior class according to ESPN, 247Sports.

Fournette then signed with the Buccaneers, with whom he played a large part in winning Super Bowl LV over the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Fournette was the team's primary starter for most of the 2021 season, but a late-season injury kept him out of the last 3 games of the regular season, as well as part of the playoffs.

Fournette credited Katrina as kick-starting his football career after he moved to Houston and back within a year because of the hurricane evacuation.

Fournette competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay and 4 × 200 metres relay.

Fournette rushed for more than 2,500 yards and 30 touchdowns his freshman season, and became the first-ever freshman to earn a scholarship offer from Louisiana State.

Fournette was named Louisiana's 2013 Mr Football by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association, and was selected as an All-American by Parade and USA Today, as well as USA Today Offensive Player of the Year, the first from Louisiana since Ryan Perrilloux in 2004.

Unanimously regarded as the best running back prospect of his class, Fournette was one of the most highly recruited players ever to come out of Louisiana.

At the 2014 Under Armour All-America Game, Fournette announced his decision to attend Louisiana State University.

Fournette attended and played college football for LSU from 2014 to 2016 under head coaches Les Miles and Ed Orgeron.

Fournette finished the season against Notre Dame in the 2014 Music City Bowl with 11 carries for 143 yards and two touchdowns.

Fournette started his sophomore season with a strong performance of 159 rushing yards and three touchdowns against Mississippi State.

Fournette rushed for a career-high 244 yards and two touchdowns against Syracuse in the Carrier Dome, six yards shy of tying Alley Broussard's school record of 250 yards against Ole Miss in 2004.

Fournette had an 87-yard touchdown run nullified by an illegal formation call late in the game.

The following week, against Eastern Michigan, Fournette rushed for 233 yards, becoming the first player in Southeastern Conference history to rush for 200 or more yards in three straight games.

Fournette tied a school record originally established by Charles Alexander in 1978.

Fournette's streak ended the next game against rival Alabama, the nation's best rushing defense, at Bryant–Denny Stadium.

Fournette was held to 31 yards on 19 attempts, as the Crimson Tide handed LSU its first loss of the season.

Fournette finished sixth in Heisman Trophy voting, earning 110 points.

Fournette earned consensus All-America honors as he was named to the first-team by three official selectors: the Associated Press, the Walter Camp Football Foundation, and the Football Writers Association of America.

However, after a pregame scuffle between the teams in which Fournette shoved a Florida assistant coach, LSU head coach Ed Orgeron granted him permission to play.

Fournette finished his junior season having carried 129 times for 843 yards and eight touchdowns in seven games.

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On December 5,2016, Fournette announced his intention to enter the 2017 NFL Draft.

Fournette finished his college career having rushed for 3,830 yards, the fourth-most by a player in LSU history behind Charles Alexander, Dalton Hilliard, and Kevin Faulk.

Fournette's 40 rushing touchdowns are tied for third most in school history with Alexander and behind Hilliard and Faulk.

Fournette arrived at the NFL combine weighing in five pounds heavier than his playing weight in college and opted to only participate in the vertical and 40-yard dash.

Fournette was ranked the top overall running back prospect by NFLDraftScout.

Fournette was the first running back taken in that year's draft.

Fournette made his regular season debut on September 10,2017, against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium.

In Week 4, against the New York Jets, Fournette recorded a 10-yard reception in the first quarter for his first career receiving touchdown.

In Week 6 against the Los Angeles Rams, Fournette carried 21 times for 130 yards, including a 75-yard touchdown run on the Jaguars' first play from scrimmage.

In 13 games and starts, Fournette finished his rookie year with 1,040 rushing yards and nine rushing touchdowns along with 302 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.

Fournette was ranked 58th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018.

Fournette missed the next two games before returning against the New York Jets, where he aggravated the injury and was ruled out indefinitely.

However, after a Donte Moncrief reception that was initially ruled a touchdown in the third quarter, Fournette got into a fistfight with Bills defender Shaq Lawson as part of a brawl that broke out between the Jaguars and Bills, and the two were subsequently ejected from the game.

Fournette was suspended one game the following day for the fight.

Fournette finished the 2018 season with 439 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns to go along with 22 receptions for 185 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.

On September 6,2020, Fournette signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Fournette became the third player in NFL history to score touchdowns in four games in a single postseason.

On March 31,2021, Fournette re-signed with the Buccaneers on a one-year deal worth $3.

Fournette was one of the first players to change his jersey number after the National Football League uniform numbers rule had changed in April 2021.

Fournette decided to wear number 7, which he previously wore at LSU during his college career.

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In Week 6, against the Philadelphia Eagles, Fournette had 127 scrimmage yards and two rushing touchdowns.

Fournette suffered a hamstring injury in Week 15 and was placed on injured reserve on December 23,2021.

Fournette finished the 2021 season with 812 rushing yards and eight rushing touchdowns to go along with 69 receptions for 454 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns.

On March 23,2022, Fournette re-signed with the Buccaneers on a three-year, $21 million contract.

On June 8,2020, Fournette led a peaceful march of about 700 people, including police officers, in downtown Jacksonville to protest the murder of George Floyd.