Some players are defined entirely by potential. Potential can be an overwhelming obstacle at times. How do you beat the expectations of your own potential? I wrote about this back when Leonard Fournette was an incoming freshman. Fournette was a special breed of athlete, like LeBron James or Tiger Woods who all the world said would be a star and said athlete somehow still probably out-achieved the expectations. Fournette’s LSU career ended poorly due to injuries, but his 2015 campaign is still among the most special in LSU history.
But dozens of others never meet those expectations.