Off The Charts Football Podcast
Aug 6, 2026 · 54 min · 15 segments
On this episode of Off The Charts, Ryan Rubinstein, Jordan Edwards, and Alex Vigderman go through their scouting…
Jeff DeanPanelist
Jordan EdwardsPanelistAlex VigdermanPanelist
Ryan RubinsteinHost
Running back Kiwan Lacey from Ole Miss, someone who had over 1,500 rush yards last year, 24 rushing touchdowns, and 99 first downs to go along with it.
Statistically, he's got the box score stats to kind of elevate him to that RB1 conversation, potential first rounder.
Last year, Ole Miss really kind of had a breakout season with Lane Kiffin's offense, kind of had a really big playoff push as well last year.
And so I think this running back class is going to be pretty good and pretty comparable to maybe the one two years ago in 2024.
But, you know, Lacey, just kind of a loose athlete can kind of make you miss.
And so you can string together misses, you know, one after another on multiple plays too.
I'm interested to see if that'll change a little bit this year, just to kind of see if it kind of balances out one way or the other.
And so, but just from a prospect perspective, I think he's going to be kind of in that mix for RB1 with a couple other guys that, you know, we kind of left off here just we wanted to talk about a lot of players here.
And so whether that be like Ahmad Hardy, you know, Jaden Ball, some other places like that.
And so a couple other things to mention, though, he had 300 carries last year alone.
And so we've seen that maybe sometimes, you know, a lot of tread on the tires in college can be a little challenging.
detrimental moving into the nfl kind of maybe shortens the life and so i wonder if that number goes down a little bit they obviously played a bunch of games last year uh and kind of you know tight games which is going to lean more on the rushing game finish the season out with a like a bum you know hamstring uh in that miami game and so how does that translate from year to year and then he also had you know he's had a couple fumbles over the last two seasons as well so you kind of want to see that cleaned up moving ahead but super explosive running back that i think is going to be kind of catch the eyes of everybody moving into next season.
And in terms of catching the eyes, like we talked about him for the Heisman conversation.
Running back Kiwan Lacey from Ole Miss, someone who had over 1,500 rush yards last year, 24 rushing touchdowns, and 99 first downs to go along with it.
Statistically, he's got the box score stats to kind of elevate him to that RB1 conversation, potential first rounder.
Last year, Ole Miss really kind of had a breakout season with Lane Kiffin's offense, kind of had a really big playoff push as well last year.
And so I think this running back class is going to be pretty good and pretty comparable to maybe the one two years ago in 2024.
But, you know, Lacey, just kind of a loose athlete can kind of make you miss.
And so you can string together misses, you know, one after another on multiple plays too.
I'm interested to see if that'll change a little bit this year, just to kind of see if it kind of balances out one way or the other.
And so, but just from a prospect perspective, I think he's going to be kind of in that mix for RB1 with a couple other guys that, you know, we kind of left off here just we wanted to talk about a lot of players here.
And so whether that be like Ahmad Hardy, you know, Jaden Ball, some other places like that.
And so a couple other things to mention, though, he had 300 carries last year alone.
And so we've seen that maybe sometimes, you know, a lot of tread on the tires in college can be a little challenging.
detrimental moving into the nfl kind of maybe shortens the life and so i wonder if that number goes down a little bit they obviously played a bunch of games last year uh and kind of you know tight games which is going to lean more on the rushing game finish the season out with a like a bum you know hamstring uh in that miami game and so how does that translate from year to year and then he also had you know he's had a couple fumbles over the last two seasons as well so you kind of want to see that cleaned up moving ahead but super explosive running back that i think is going to be kind of catch the eyes of everybody moving into next season.
And in terms of catching the eyes, like we talked about him for the Heisman conversation.
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