Kewan Lacy

#5 · RB · Jr. · Ole Miss5′11″ · 205 lb · Dallas, TX · Lancaster

Rushing yards388118th of 278 running backsLast gameW 45–15vs Auburn · Oct 31
Nextvs GeorgiaSat Nov 7 · 7:30 pm ET
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388 rushing yards in 6 games; their best was 122 vs Missouri.
Game 1: against Louisville, win 41-38, 61 rushing yards, 1 touchdown61WLOUGame 2: against Charlotte, win 41-9, 87 rushing yards, 2 touchdowns87WCLTGame 3: against LSU, win 32-24, 43 rushing yards, 1 touchdown43WLSUGame 4: at Florida, loss 28-52, no carries in this gameLFLA@Game 5: at Vanderbilt, win 52-17, 39 rushing yards, 1 touchdown39WVAN@Game 6: against Missouri, win 31-3, 122 rushing yards122WMIZGame 7: at Texas, loss 27-34, 36 rushing yards36LTEX@Game 8: against Auburn, win 45-15, no carries in this gameWAUBSeason high
Game 1: against Louisville, win 41-38, 61 rushing yards, 1 touchdownWLOUGame 2: against Charlotte, win 41-9, 87 rushing yards, 2 touchdownsWCLTGame 3: against LSU, win 32-24, 43 rushing yards, 1 touchdownWLSUGame 4: at Florida, loss 28-52, no carries in this gameLFLA@Game 5: at Vanderbilt, win 52-17, 39 rushing yards, 1 touchdownWVAN@Game 6: against Missouri, win 31-3, 122 rushing yards122WMIZGame 7: at Texas, loss 27-34, 36 rushing yardsLTEX@Game 8: against Auburn, win 45-15, no carries in this gameWAUBSeason high
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Auburn · W 45-15

No carries.

Lacy has carries in 6 of Ole Miss’s 8 games: none against Florida and Auburn.

Dashed line: 100 yards.

This week

  • RecordOle Miss is 6-2, No. 12 in the AP poll (week 10).
  • What fans say

    Over the last few games, Ole Miss fans have been high on Lacy.

    “So nice to have Lacy back”

    “Kewan Lacy is a powerful man”

    “Lacy made that look easy”

    From r/CFB game threads. Read by AI.

  • Next gamevs Georgia · Sat Nov 7

What’s being said

9 stories this week, from 7 outlets.

Oct 29: 3Oct 30: 1Oct 31: 1Nov 2: 3Nov 3: 1W 45-15 vs AuburnWOct 29Nov 4Most in a day: 3
Oct 29: 3Oct 30: 1Oct 31: 1Nov 2: 3Nov 3: 1W 45-15 vs AuburnWOct 29Nov 4Most in a day: 3
Stories per day. W and L: the team’s results.

Kewan Lacy injury update for Ole Miss vs Georgia: Rebels star likely out, Pete Golding says

The Clarion-Ledger +1 Nov 2

All 159 stories this season

Worth knowing

  • Kewan Lacy was first-team All-SEC in 2025.
  • Kewan Lacy had 122 rushing yards in the 31-3 win over No. 13 Missouri, the best game of the season so far.

His most important play this season

  1. Q1, 2:00 · Ole Miss up 3Kewan Lacy runs 5 yards for a touchdownLSU at Ole Miss, week 3Q1, 2:00 · Ole Miss 10, LSU 0▲21%Ole Miss’s chance to win, 59% to 80%▲21%Ole Miss’s chance to win, 59% to 80%K.Lacy rush middle for 5 yards gain to the LSU00 touchdown, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football

All 6 of his plays on video

The story

Written , before the 2026 season

He led all of FBS with 307 carries, ran for roughly 1,564 yards, scored 23 or 24 touchdowns, made first-team All-SEC and powered Ole Miss to a College Football Playoff semifinal — a true bell cow in every sense. When a transfer pursuit came, he re-signed with the Rebels rather than chase it.

Read the rest of the story

The forward stakes are continuity through change: with the program made over around him, Lacy is the established constant, the back an offense can hand the ball to thirty times and trust to wear a defense down and finish at the goal line. The question for 2026 isn't whether he can carry the load — he proved that — it's whether the offense around him keeps the lanes open. For a runner this durable and this productive in the red zone, that's the difference between a good year and an All-America one.

Sources

Style of play

Style of play

Play style, written June 13, before the season

Lacy is a volume-and-finish back, and the data draws him honestly. The elite trait is scoring: an 79th-percentile rushing-touchdown rate, which fits a back who found the end zone two dozen times and lived at the goal line. The efficiency numbers are more workmanlike — a 29th-percentile yards-per-carry and a 58th-percentile success rate — the mark of a runner who took an enormous, grinding workload (a nation-leading 307 carries) rather than a home-run hitter picking his spots. He's also a capable outlet (84th-percentile catch rate). The profile is a downhill, physical, every-down grinder: not the back who breaks a 60-yarder, but the one who gets you the tough four yards on third down and punches it in from the two. Durability and finishing are the whole game, and both are his.

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

6/16Inside-5 share

6 of the team's 16 inside-the-5 carries (37.5%).

Similar players

Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

29% of the carries, 30% of the yards, 29% of the touchdowns

  • Carries29%78 of 265
  • Yards30%388 of 1,289
  • Touchdowns29%5 of 17

Share of the team's rushing yards, game by game

No bar in a game where the team had under 100 rushing yards: a share of that little says nothing.

Who carried it

Share of the team's total this season.

Most of his carries go up the middle

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leftmiddleright
a carry, up for a gain and down for a lossa touchdown

Each line is one carry: taller means more yards, and a line pointing down lost yards. Black lines are touchdowns. The play text only says left, middle or right, so inside each lane the carries are lined up shortest to longest, not placed. Of his carries with a spot in the play text: left 13, middle 53, right 12. His longest went for 28 yards.