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Lombardi Leonard Fournette and the season that almost wasn’t

Leonard Fournette, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Consider if you will the roller coaster ride that was the 2020 National Football League season from the perspective of one Leonard Fournette. Weeks before the season was supposed to kick off, the bell-cow running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars found himself on the outside looking in.

The organization didn’t want him. At that point, he wasn’t Lombardi Lenny, he wasn’t even playoff Lenny, and from his perspective, any such praise was likely a long way out of his thoughts.
His thoughts must have been what do I do now?