Ole Miss RB Kewan Lacy didn’t immediately return to the Fiesta Bowl after suffering an apparent injury on a 73-yard touchdown run in the first half.
The score at the start of the second quarter was Lacy’s second carry of the game. After the touchdown, he was replaced in the backfield by backup Logan Diggs. The ESPN broadcast referenced an apparent right hamstring injury for Lacy.
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You can see that Lacy slowed up on the touchdown run as he broke free and replays showed that he appeared to be laboring as he got closer to the end zone.
“They’re looking at him so we’ll figure out at halftime,” Ole Miss coach Pete Golding said in his halftime interview on ESPN. Lacy’s TD was the only one Ole Miss scored as the Rebels trailed 17-13 at the break.
Lacy had two carries for 75 yards while Diggs had four carries and QB Trinidad Chambliss officially had three with sacks included.
Lacy would return to the game in the second half but was mostly used as a decoy by the Ole Miss offense in the third quarter and largely ineffectual in the fourth quarter as the Rebels found more success through the air.
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However, after Ole Miss went up 27-24 with just over three minutes left in the game, Miami mounted a drive of its own and QB Carson Beck scored on a short run with just 18 seconds left to win the game for the Hurricanes. (The Rebels had a Hail Mary attempt that fell incomplete.)
Lacy was a star in 2025. He entered the game with 1,464 rushing yards on 295 carries and had scored 24 touchdowns counting his long run on Thursday night. He also had 28 catches for 173 yards. As Chambliss finished in the top 10 in the Heisman voting, Lacy was an equally important part of Ole Miss’ offense as the team made the College Football Playoff for the first time.
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