Leonard Fournette has missed three games this year with injury, and in his return game (his first under Ed Orgeron’s offensive coordinator, Steve Ensminger), he broke LSU’s school record for rushing yardage, putting up 284 yards and three touchdowns on only 16 carries, a hilarious 17.75-yard average.
Leonard Fournette broke LSU’s rushing record, but his best highlight wasn’t a running play
Here are the Tigers star’s four biggest plays from his incredible return game.
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Here are his four best plays from No. 25 LSU’s 38-21 win over No. 23 Ole Miss ...
... but here’s one everyone’s still talking about, this sinister baptism of a poor freshman defensive back ...
... came on a pass, which helped push his total production all the way up to 309 yards.
Every time you flipped back over to this game, Fournette was breaking loose. He nearly broke LSU’s record on just his seventh carry of the night.
And if he’d gotten, oh, 20 carries, he could’ve made a run at the all-time conference record, too.
Backup Derrius Guice, who filled in well during Fournette’s injury, had 16 carries of his own, and there was little reason to keep riding the big horse, with the Tigers’ lead growing to two scores with 23 minutes still to go.
This is the second time in three games that LSU’s remodeled offense has broken records. In Orgeron’s first game as head coach, LSU set a school record for yards in an SEC game ... without Fournette.
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