LSU coach Les Miles wants Leonard Fournette to drop some weight

LSU’s Leonard Fournette might be considered the best running back in college football, but his coach, Les Miles, thinks he could be even better with a little weight loss.

“I think Leonard was 235 or 233 (pounds) during spring,” Miles told Paul Finebaum on Thursday. “We want him right around 225 so that his strength and speed are kind of maximized. He’s an elite guy and he wants to be in an elite body as he goes into the fall.”

Fournette was listed at 6-foot-1, 230 last fall and used that frame to rush for 1,953 yards and 22 touchdowns. His highlight reel from the season shows him stiff-arming defenders, running over defenders and just outright outpacing defenders to the end zone.

Yet, Fournette, who is a team player, has already heeded his coach’s words.