Quote:He's not very good at it when compared to Fred Taylor. Again. This is a painfully obvious observation and it was the one common knock on Fournette prior to the draft from a number of the more respected analysts.


Having a good lead-blocking FB will help. So I'm optimistic about Fournette and expect him to break some big time runs as a Jaguar. But we'll see plenty of shoestring tackles where Fournette gets easily tripped up at the line when there's no hole for him to run through.

It's all over his cut-ups at LSU and he'll only be facing tougher defenses now. So it will continue to happen.


I've watched about a dozen of his games and studied his cut-ups against the better defenses.

He struggles when met with pressure at or behind the line of scrimmage and is easily tripped up in those situations.

Fred would improvise his way out of those situations fairly often. Fournette doesn't have the lateral agility to extricate himself from backfield pressure like Fred did. It's a very clear-cut, plain-to-see matter.