INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Leonard Fournette didn’t watch football growing up, didn’t dream about playing in the National Football League and doesn’t watch any current games. He didn’t have a favorite player and still doesn’t.
But he knows Cincinnati Bengals running back Jeremy Hill, as the Bengals’ 2014 second-round pick has returned often to Louisiana State University, allowing the two to talk about anything other than football.
“It’s a brotherhood at LSU,” Fournette said in his media session at the NFL Scouting Combine in the Indiana Convention Center.
“Just like I am with Jeremy, with Joseph Addai, any former running back at LSU, they always come back, talk to us, give us their number, any advice we need, just call ‘em.