The Run That Made Kewan Lacy A National Name | Ole Miss vs Louisville Pregame | Michael Katz from the NE Miss Daily Journal

Michael Katz of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal spent six weeks and eleven interviews on one Kewan Lacy story — and the centerpiece is a single high school run that every person he talked to brought up unprompted.

Game day. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, 7:30 ET on ABC — the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the Week 1 schedule.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Strong defensive line prospects

03:58 Louisville run game challenges

07:41 Discussing Ole Miss front 7

10:20 Why the shirt is popular

16:23 Starting research while on vacation

18:44 High school football talent insights

20:35 Impressive touchdown run

26:28 Expectations for Week 1 Game

27:37 Podcast membership and live show info

📌 THREE THINGS

1. The Lacy reporting. Katz asked every coach and teammate what the craziest thing was they'd seen Lacy do on a field, and they all named the same play against South Oak Cliff — a run where he spun out of two tacklers, got to the perimeter, ran through two more, and had two more fall off him. The opposing head coach, who has three state titles and coached against Kyler Murray and Matthew Stafford, called it one of the best plays he has seen a running back make. Katz also learned Lacy split carries as a Lancaster junior with Kyson Brown, now at Arizona State, and didn't become a national recruit until his senior year.

2. Why this defensive line is different from the 2024 group. That team had elite top-end talent — Walter Nolen, Princely Umanmielen, JJ Pegues, Jared Ivey — but a real drop-off when anyone came off the field. Katz's read on this year is depth: you can take Will Echoles out and not lose much. He also expects Echoles to be a first-round pick and thinks Kam Franklin will make a lot of money.

3. The structural reason a front seven wins games. When your three-technique and your nose demand double teams, four offensive linemen are occupied, the linebackers run free, and the ends get single-blocked. That's what Alabama and Georgia built, and it's what this front is being asked to become.

Plus the running back matchup that might be the best of the season, and Katz's final score.

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