Leonard Fournette vs. Derrick Henry: Who was the better high school running back?

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Both players were nearly unstoppable in high school.

They are two of the all-time greats in high school football: Leonard Fournette and Derrick Henry.

The running backs are currently lighting up college football, but before that both carved out incredible legacies at the high school level.

In the case of Fournette, his legacy was established before setting foot onto the campus of St. Augustine (New Orleans). By the time he began his freshman season, he already was listed at 6-foot, 220 pounds. In his debut game, he rushed for 238 yards and three scores. His follow-up act? A 245-yard, two-touchdown game one week later.

Fournette finished the season as a first-team MaxPreps Freshman All-American Team selection, rushing for 1,735 yards and 22 touchdowns as a ninth-grader facing some of Louisiana's biggest and best programs.

He tallied 7,619 yards and 88 touchdowns during his high school career, finished as the No. 1 recruit in the 247Sports Composite Rankings and was hailed as the best running back prospect since Adrian Peterson.

If Fournette was the anointed one in a football-crazed city playing at one of the country's top talent-producing schools, Henry was basically the opposite. He was as physically imposing as Fournette, if not more so, at 6-4, 200 pounds. Henry, however, spurned local football powers to play for his hometown school Yulee (Fla.), which played in one of the smallest classifications in Florida.

While Henry would have been brilliant against any group of high school opponents, Yulee's opponents — mostly fellow small schools — allowed Henry to absolutely feast on competition.

For four years he carried Yulee's offense and the team steadily improved, culminating with a 9-4 record in 2012, Henry's senior season.

All Henry did during the process was break the national career rushing yards record, previously held by Ken Hall. Incredibly, Henry ended his four-year career just shy of 12,000 rushing yards.

After committing to Georgia in the summer before his junior season, Henry ultimately signed with Alabama as the No. 12 recruit overall in the 247Sports Composite Rankings.

The best running back recruit since Adrian Peterson versus the nation's all-time leading rusher. Who was the better high school running back?