Each Friday leading up to the 2018 Auburn football season, FlyWarEagle will make a prediction about the upcoming season and the first one focuses on the running game.
That’s right, Johnson is off to the NFL. Auburn lost last season’s SEC leading rusher in Johnson, along with Kamryn Pettway, who led the SEC in 2016.
But Auburn will be better on the ground in 2018 than 2017 when the Tigers ranked 26th in the nation with 218.3 yards per game. It will be tough to hit the 271.3 yards per game Auburn had in 2016 because the passing game should be better.