Ole Miss Hit With Devastating Injury News Days Before Facing Oklahoma

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The Ole Miss Rebels are 6-3 overall and 4-3 in SEC play after their brutal 42-7 loss to Georgia last weekend in Oxford. Two weeks before that, they fell 34-27 at Texas. Those are…

The Ole Miss Rebels are 6-3 overall and 4-3 in SEC play after their brutal 42-7 loss to Georgia last weekend in Oxford.

Two weeks before that, they fell 34-27 at Texas. Those are two ranked opponents who are firmly in the College Football Playoff Conversation, but it's too late in the season to be dropping games like that. Now they head into a crucial SEC clash at Oklahoma on Saturday, with the CFP potentially hanging in the balance.

It will be a high-pressure environment for Pete Golding's squad, and it looks like the Rebels will have to battle it out without their best offensive player. On Thursday, On3's Pete Nakos reported that Ole Miss' star running back Kewan Lacy is set to miss the remainder of the 2026 season due to his shoulder injury.

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Lacy quickly emerged as one of the best players in college football last season, rushing for 1,567 yards (third most in FBS) and 24 touchdowns (second) on an FBS-leading 306 attempts, averaging 5.1 yards per carry, along with 177 receiving yards. He earned first-team All-American and first-team All-SEC honors, and entered this year on the preseason watchlist for several national awards. But Lacy injured his left shoulder in the Rebels' loss to Texas on Oct. 24, and hasn't been able to recover.

His third, and potentially final, college season ends after just six games, finishing with 388 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns on 78 carries (5.0 yards per carry). Makhi Frazier, a Junior transfer from Michigan State, and sophomore Shekai Mills-Knight will continue to handle the bulk of the carries for Ole Miss. Frazier has 365 rushing yards on 72 carries this season (5.1 yards per carry), while Mills-Knight has 165 yards and three touchdowns on 33 carries (5.0 yards per carry).

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