Cook was never in trouble once he got his life together in high school. It was an old narrative that stuck around. He got in some trouble from the airsoft gun stuff that the whole team was doing. He just happened to be one of the ones who was there when property was damaged. Then the drunk girls got pissed he didn't want to allow them a chance to win a million dollar lottery ticket and told them to get lost. The dogs being chained up outside was bad, but where he grew up, that is normal and I really doubt he thought anything of it before. He didn't have any problems again after that.

Cook is the better RB hands down. Cook hardly ever had holes like LF did in college because FSU's OL was so bad. Without Cook, Jimbo gets fired or runs from FSU years sooner. Cook can make plays when there is no hole and sees the holes better than LF.

LF has 1 thing and it is straight line speed. He can sometimes run over defenders, but nothing like MJD did. LF wasn't even on my list as options, he was a product of playing against garbage defenses and getting huge holes where all he had to do was run straight. When those holes disappeared against better teams, Bama, he stunk it up. DC beat teams on his own by making a cut to hit a home run.


The only option should have been Cook or McCaffrey.

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