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Well that truly sucks!

Hope our coaches get on top of this quickly.

Don't know what to think about this other than to know it makes for an easily understandable exit.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Leonard Fournette carries it in his eyes. He wears his heart on his sleeve and lets the weight of the world fall on his sculpted shoulders. There's a heaviness to him -- his hands, his legs that rise from the ground like the hearty roots of the live oaks and magnolia trees that shade the cracked, pitted roads here in New Orleans.

He stares straight ahead, his eyes a perfect black and white canvas. The strokes are broad and vicious: devastation, pain, death. The cuts are deep and fresh. This city has done it to him, the city he loves but cannot enjoy. To wrap his arms around it would be like welcoming suffocation. It will take his life if he lets it. For many in his family, it already has.

Two months ago, his 18-year-old cousin was shot in the chest, murdered for nothing, murdered because it's what this city does

Last year, one of every 1,700 residents from the Crescent City were slain, the highest murder per capita rate in the country. Fournette is aware of the fact. There were 199 people killed in New Orleans last year, and there's a chance Fournette knew who pulled the trigger on a few of those occasions.

"You have to watch the places you go. It's not really safe. They shoot up parties, so that's why I only go to parties around this area" -- Fournette said before thinking a second longer -- "Well, it's not really safe. They still shoot here.

The murder was a few blocks from Fournette's doorstep, the second reported homicide within a mile of his home since Jan. 1.

Fournette smiles. He looks up from his feet. He's thinking about his future again, his eyes glinting in the light. He's thinking about a life somewhere else, somewhere he won't have watch his every step.
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Depth chart will be a big factor with him and should play into our favor. We do not need to take a RB this year and take him and a Devon Thomas type and be set. I see him starting as a frosh at FB similar to Ware and Hillard did..