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How Ole Miss uses John Rhys Plumlee in the run game

As Ole Miss prepares to lock horns with Vanderbilt in a rare non-Jefferson Pilot setting, questions are swirling, as they often do, about who will start at quarterback for the Rebels. Matt Luke and Rich Rodriguez have both said some version of “you’ll find out when the offense takes the field”, followed by the slyest of grins.

No matter who starts, Luke and Rodriguez said that Plumlee will play, mainly because he brings the element of being a dynamic runner in an offense that wants to run the dang ball a lot. Corral can be an effective runner, but Plumlee possesses absurd speed, which, as they like to say, YOU CAN’T TEACH THAT, BOB.