The odds are in Leonard Fournette’s favor. In the early goings — the very early goings — Fournette is a good bet to win the 2015 Heisman Trophy. Oddsmaker website Bovada listed Fournette as a 7/1 bet to win the award, tied with Dak Prescott for second-best odds to win in 2015.

Fournette will certainly carry the load for LSU in 2015 after sharing carries for much of 2014. It wasn’t until midseason that the staff truly let him loose on their opponents. Even with his evident talent, Fournette wasn’t the hammer to close out games for much of the year. Instead, he wore down defenses early and watched Kenny Hilliard hammer tired defenders late in game.

That should change this year. Fournette will have every chance to trample worn-down defenses late in games. This time around, it’ll be two new freshmen that help clear a path for Fournette.

Derrius Guice and Nick Brossette, both four-star Louisiana prospects, come in with plenty of hype and the ability to contribute to the Tigers immediately.

Les Miles already said in LSU’s post-National Signing Day press conference that he expects Brossette to play every game in 2015. He looks like the perfect player to fill Hilliard’s role: a wide-framed back with good feet and the ability to pick a hole. Instead of Fournette, he’ll be the guy pounding away between the tackles.

Guice brings some of the versatility lost with Terrence Magee. He’s not huge, listed around 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds by most services. Scouts still like his ability to run out of a variety of formations, both inside and out of the tackles. If his performance in the U.S. Army All-American game is any indication, he’ll be a threat out of the backfield as well.

Fournette’s classmate Darrel Williams will be around as well, a thumper capable of breaking tackles in the middle of the field.

With all that talent on hand, you have to wonder if there are enough carries for everyone. Fournette is clearly going to be the workhorse, and he’ll be the man the Tigers turn to late in games. With his 230-pound frame and breakaway speed, Fournette is the ideal guy to be carrying the ball in crunch time.

But having so many talented options really is what’s best, both for the Tigers and for Fournette. It’s not a good long-term plan to hand the ball to one guy over and over. LSU’s dominant rushing offense proved that as it rounded into form as the season wore on, with three backs averaging eight or more carries per game.

With no indication that LSU’s passing offense will change much next year, it’ll be crucial to find as many carries as possible for four players this year. If they don’t, it’ll likely be because Fournette is just too good to not give 20-plus carries a game.

Either way, it should make the Tigers the scariest rushing offense in the SEC in 2015.