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If we are going to refrain from picking players based on recent draft misses, I guess we won't be drafting a QB, RB, C, DB, LB, DE in the first two rounds either.
I think the biggest lesson to come from Richardson is to use caution when drafting players from stacked teams. It's one reason why Garrett is such a good prospect -- he was easily the best defensive player on their front seven, so it wasn't like he benefitted from other players getting attention.
In that regard, LSU had two main ball carriers this year. Their stats:
STAT: Att. Yds. YPC TD's Long
RB A: 129 843 6.53 8 78(t)
RB B: 183 1387 7.6 15 96(t)
http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/99/year/2015
Fournette was RB A. And the year before, when RB B was a freshman, he only got 51 carries to Fournette's 300, but still averaged 8.5 ypc v. Fournette's 6.5.
I'm not saying that to pimp RB A. I'm just saying that seeing how well someone else ran behind that exact same line makes me a bit skeptical of claims that Fournette is the next AP/once in a decade level talent. And its relevant because Richardson was essentially indistinguishable statistically from Mark Ingram, his predecessor at Alabama.
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