Leonard Fournette’s lifestyle has completely changed.
He’s got meetings to attend, workouts to complete and “plenty” of NFL teams to talk to.
Meetings, teams and a schedule he can’t keep up with — but that’s what his Roc Nation agent is for.
It’s big transition, he said, but it’s all in preparation for the NFL draft that takes place April 27.
“I’m not going to say that it’s too hard,” Fournette said about his life recently. “But it’s something I have to do to better my family and to better my career.”
The New Orleans native went through majority of the running backs drills at the combine, including the 40-yard dash, running 4.51 at the NFL scouting event.
It was a time he was content with.
“I felt good with my time at the combine and just kept it there,” he said.
Fournette decided not to run the 40 or go through any agility drills, such as the 3-cone drill or two-shuttle drill.
Instead, most of his time at pro day was going through pass catching drills and even lined up out wide as a receiver.
Fournette was also noticeably slimmer. It was the one thing he wanted to prove to scouts on Wednesday.
“My mama has been on me about what I’ve been eating,” Fournette said. “Basically, I just wanted to show everybody I can lose the weight.”
The projected 10-pick weighed in at 228 — 12 pounds lighter than he did at the combine.
LSU coach Ed Orgeron knew Fournette had dropped weight when he saw him at LSU’s practice facility.
“When I saw him at 228 without a shirt on, I said ‘He lost weight, he looks great,’” Orgeron said. “He looked tremendous in the drills that he did. Crisp. His ankle to me looked like a 100 percent. He cut, he changed direction well, he was happy. It was kind of a wow factor when he went through those bags.”
Fournette said NFL teams wanted to see him lose weight, and he had been asked about his nagging ankle injury from the 2016 season.
“They understood the situation I was in, and they understood the injury, and they respected it,” Fournette said about his ankle injury. “They always ask me if I’m 100 percent now, and I give them the right answer — that I’m 100 percent.”
Fournette plans to fly to Philadelphia for the NFL draft later this month, and in the meantime he will train in Louisiana and hold meetings with multiple NFL teams.
As for his kids, he’s just trying to keep up with his fast growing daughter.
“My daughter … she’s grown now, man,” Fournette said. “I feel like she’s two going on 20. She’s bad man.”

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Former LSU running back Leonard Fournette speaks to a fan during the LSU football pro day on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at the Charles McClendon LSU football practice facility.