Leonard Fournette Fires Back on Twitter at Overweight Report – Sports Illustrated

An earlier report made by Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times speculated that the Buccaneers’ coaching staff were not too thrilled with the shape that running back Leonard Fournette showed up in when mandatory minicamp kicked off. “Coaches were not happy, and that’s an understatement, when he didn’t participate in the OTAs, but then he shows up at the mandatory minicamp weighing damn near 260,” Stroud said via his podcast Sports Day Tampa Bay. “And that’s not a good sign for a guy that you just spent a three-year contract on.”READ MORE: Rob Gronkowski’s girlfriend Camille Kostek does not think his second retirement is permanentFournette has bet on himself the past two seasons with the Bucs after many were writing him off after his first contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars. It is obvious that Lenny has put in the work to earn the 3-yr./$21 million contract this past off-season. Now that he has it, will he be able to maintain that level of competitive want-to heading into 2023?We should just ask Fournette himself, as he has since taken to his Twitter account to express his thoughts on the reports.First, it started with a since-deleted tweet, that was captured by…
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