re: Athlon Sports- Who will lead the SEC in rushing in 2014?

Mike Davis or Todd Gurly

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Gurley, Yeldon, and Mike Davis are the safe bets. LSU will rotate heavily at the RB position and we'll probably have Magee rush for about 1,000 and Fournette rush for 750 or so.

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Jeremy Hill came in as a true freshman and ran for 740 yards and 12 TDs against Idaho (played in only the fourth quarter), USCe, TAMU, Bama, MSU, Ole Miss, Arkansas, and Clemson. That is with a horrific passing game and an OL that just lost three starters a replaced them with a sohpmore, true freshman, and redshirt freshman.

Magee was relegated to WR because he couldn't crack the 5 deep in 2012 yet he is going to get 1000 while the #1 recruit in the nation is going to get 750? Hell Marshall had 760 as a backup to Gurley (both true freshman).

Also you can't use the passing game BS excuse because Crowell was a 5 star back and couldn't net a 1000 as the main horse while Murray passed for 3150 and 35 TDs. Collins (true freshman) and Williams from Arkansas had 1000 and 900 yards respectively with arse at quarterback.

After watching true freshman RBs from the past 4 years go over the 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300 yard mark with 12, 15, 17 TDs with varying OLs, passing games, and backfield situations, I have no doubt in my mind that Fournette will be the next one. Don't care what anybody says, he is a 1200-1300 yard runner this year with double digit TDs.