Leonard Fournette is so 2015.

The LSU star sophomore topped this list last year, and, yes, he’ll still be the face of LSU football until he shakes NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s hand.

But our challenge is to identify the next round of Fournettes, the next current freshman or redshirt freshman who will become the face of his team in 2016.

Some selections were obvious. Some were more subjective. Some based on opportunity, others based on necessity. We start with the easiest selection of all …

Alabama: Calvin Ridley

Like Fournette’s selection last year, this one is easy. Ridley is the latest in the Crimson Tide’s assembly line of play-making wideouts. He doesn’t have Julio Jones’ size, but he has Amari Cooper’s ability to get open and make people miss after the catch.

Ridley finished with 75 catches — third in the SEC — and was tied for ninth with 5 TD receptions. The Tide won’t have Derrick Henry to lean on next year. There will be another talented running back, that stable never is empty, but Ridley will become an even bigger part of the offensive plan.

Arkansas: Dre Greenlaw

The weakside linebacker led all SEC freshmen with 44 solo tackles and 93 total tackles.

He’s a converted safety with a Blind Side-like background, a classic overachiever in every sense of the word.

An easy guy to cheer for.

Auburn: Sean White

RB Kerryon Johnson has potential to be the next big thing, but he’s still behind Peyton Barber. White, in theory, is still behind Jeremy Johnson, but you got the sense Gus Malzahn was just biding time until White was ready. He benched Johnson early in the season. At this point, we know what Johnson is and what he isn’t.

In limited opportunities, White showed better big-play potential — 8 passes of 30 or more yards was on pace with Will Grier.

QB play held Auburn back this season and was the primary reason the Tigers couldn’t come close to realizing its lofty, though mistaken, preseason expectations.

Florida: Antonio Callaway

Fellow freshmen Calvin Ridley and Christian Kirk caught more balls, but nobody in the SEC made more big plays than Callaway, who led the SEC by averaging 20.10 yards per catch.

Florida’s QB issues cut down on his catches, but it’s virtually impossible to imagine that Treon Harris will be throwing to him next season.

It’s almost as impossible to imagine anybody punting to Callaway next year. He took two back, including the 85-yarder against Alabama in the SEC Championship Game.

Georgia: Terry Godwin

How will freshman head coach Kirby Smart use the Wild Dawg? Who will Kirby Smart hire to maximize all that Godwin has to offer? Those are bigger questions than any surrounding Godwin’s ability to make plays.

Godwin and Malcolm Mitchell will give Georgia an explosive 1-2 punch on the outside and help keep safeties from peeking in at Nick Chubb.

(For the purposes of this exercise, incoming freshmen aren’t eligible, otherwise Jacob Eason, assuming he arrives in Athens, would be the logical choice. A capable QB capable of stretching the field, surrounded by all that skill, is something Bulldogs fans haven’t seen since Aaron Murray left in 2013.)

Kentucky: Drew Barker

The late-season starts and Patrick Towles’ decision to transfer ensures this is Barker’s team in what could be a win-or-else season for coach Mark Stoops.

Kentucky’s 2015 mirrored 2014: Hot starts, ice-cold finishes, 5-7 record.

The Wildcats haven’t had a winning record in the SEC since 1977. That’s the longest such streak among Power 5 conference teams. Barker is the best hope the Wildcats have of ending that dubious distinction.

He showed flashes — most notably in relief against Vanderbilt — but needs to be much more consistent and much better than he was against in the season-ending collapse against Louisville.

Big Blue Nation believes in Barker, though. He’s a Kentucky kid, and it’s clearly his team.

LSU: Arden Key

OK, how about the defensive face of the Tigers? No magazine editor who asks for Fournette and gets Key as his cover boy would be thrilled, but Les Miles knows what he has in Key, who registered 5.0 sacks as a true freshman.

Key is a pass-rushing specialist who quickly shed his “too skinny for the SEC label.” He now weighs 231.

He’s next year’s Myles Garrett.

Mississippi State: Nick Fitzgerald

Dak Prescott has been the face of Hail State football for three years. He leaves Starkville as the greatest QB in program history, one of the best in SEC history.

Somebody will line up under center, but nobody will replace him.

Luckily for Fitzgerald, a 6-5 pro-style passer, he will have a legitimate go-to weapon in De’Runnya Wilson (assuming he returns for his senior year).

Fitzgerald has to win the job. He’s competing with Elijah Staley, but they came in together in 2014, have been in the system for two years, and Fitzgerald has held the upper hand.

Missouri: Walter Brady

Missouri promoted defensive coordinator Barry Odom to head coach, which will ensure no philosophical changes to the Tigers’ defense. That’s particularly good news for Brady, who led SEC freshman with 7 sacks in 2015.

Ole Miss: Breeland Speaks

Robert Nkemdiche is a projected top-5 pick in April’s NFL Draft, so obviously his expected departure creates a huge hole to fill on the Rebels’ defensive line.

Good thing for Ole Miss, Speaks specializes in plugging gaps.

The 6-4, 313-pound redshirt freshman filled in admirably for Nkemdiche when the All-American suffered a concussion earlier this season.

Next year, he’ll anchor a defense that won’t have the luxury of an offense that averaged an SEC-best 40.3 points per game.

South Carolina: Deebo Samuel

This isn’t so much a guarantee of what will happen as a proclamation of what needs to happen.

And what needs to happen is for Samuel to continue playing like he did against Clemson: 5 catches, 108 yards, 1 TD.

South Carolina’s passing attack is largely one supersized question mark — Who’s the QB? Who replaces senior TE Jerell Adams? — but Samuel can address the issue of who replaces Pharoah Cooper, assuming Cooper enters the NFL Draft.

Tennessee: Chance Hall

The 2016 Vols won’t have many openings for rising sophomores to play starring roles. Almost all of their skill players return, which is one reason they’re already being considered a favorite to win the SEC East.

One opportunity is on the offensive line. The big boys rarely get love, even in a league where success is directly tied to dominant line play.

Hall started as a true freshman, and with left tackle Kyler Kerbyson’s graduation, he is a candidate to slide over and protect Joshua Dobbs’ blind side.

Texas A&M: Christian Kirk

Calvin Ridley might be a better pure receiver, but no freshman had a bigger, more instant impact than Kirk.

He led the SEC  in punt return average (24.36) and returned two for touchdowns in his part-time job.

He burst out of the gate, posting three 100-yard receiving efforts in three of his first four college games. He laid 173 yards and 2 TDs on Arkansas. Texas A&M’s QB play fell off the rails late in the season, and that no doubt contributed to Kirk’s drop in production.

Vanderbilt: Kyle Shurmur

For better or worse, Shurmur is the face of Commodores football.

In 2015, Ralph Webb did his best to make that a happy face. He did so with the second-most anemic passing offense in the SEC.

Shurmur showed flashes in 2015 (503 yards, 5 TDs to 3 INTs).

In 2016, Shurmur has to provide Webb more help.

He has the size (6-4, 226), the arm strength and pedigree. Vanderbilt didn’t strip his redshirt because it wanted to. It did so because it needed to.

It’s his team.