In a league filled with freakish athletes and stud recruits, Leonard Fournette flashed on the radar of SEC powers as a high school freshman.
In that way, he immediately stood out in comparison to his peers in the 2014 class.
Alabama head coach Nick Saban and LSU head coach Les Miles would engage in a four-year battle over Fournette equally as intense as any of the high-profile matchups their clubs have produced on the field in recent years.
By the time Fournette began his senior year at St. Augustine High School, he was as much a part of the fabric of New Orleans as Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street and cajun cooking.