It seems like Leonard Fournette has some work to do to get involved in video game shape. A Buccaneer's train informed Rick Stroud of the Tampa Florida Bay Times that the RB appeared to camp evaluating more than 250 extra pounds (Twitter Id link), a substantial jump from his basic playing weight of around 230 pounds.
" Trainers were not happy, which's an understatement, when [Fournette] didn't join the OTAs, yet after that, he shows up at the compulsory minicamp considering damn near 260," Stroud claimed throughout a look on the Sports Day Tampa fl Bay podcast. "And that's not a great sign for a man that you have actually just invested a three-year agreement on."
Joey Knight of the Tampa bay Bay Times kept in mind during minicamp that Fournette appeared to be unhealthy, as the RB was clearly struggling during drills. At the time, Fournette confessed to being obese, yet he sounded optimistic that he's back to his common weight in time for the training school.
" Certainly I need to get my weight down, which has actually always been [a point] during the summertime," Fournette stated. "It's going to return down though."
" I don't believe anybody's where they require to be right now," Bowles said at the time. "It's training camp where you require to be where you've reached be, so today there are people that are in a form that can manage to shed a few pounds, and there are individuals that are out of form that is really underweight. So we're trying to care for that right now. We'll stress over it in training school."
Fournette took over the beginning function from Ronald Jones
in 2021 and also seized the opportunity. The previous fourth-overall pick
averaged a career-high 4.5 yards per lug, and he rated sixth in the NFL amongst
RBs with 1,266 lawns from scrimmage. After striking complimentary company, he
ended up re-signing with Tampa fl Bay on a three-year, $21MM deal. If the
27-year-old is restricted to starting training camp, that would indicate extra
associates for newbie third-round choice Rashaad White, 2020 third-round choice
Ke'Shawn Vaughn, and also professionals Giovani Bernard as well as Kenjon
Barner.
Sources: Foot ball Rumors