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Key Vanderbilt RB leaves program ahead of Georgia game

Running back Rocko Griffin, who has left the Vanderbilt football program, ran for 517 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns in 2021.

Vanderbilt Commodores running back Rocko Griffin has left Vanderbilt’s football program. Griffin ran for 517 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns last season.

The junior running back has received just nine carries in 2022. The Commodores will miss Griffin for their game at Georgia in Week 7.

Georgia dominated Vanderbilt, 62-0, last year. The Commodores will be motivated to play better this time around, but they will have to do it without Griffin.

Vanderbilt (3-3) is off to a much better start to the 2022 college football season. The Commodores have accumulated 1,005 rushing yards this season, which is part of the reason they are performing better in 2022.

Griffin has the fourth-most carries of any player on Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt starting running back Ray Davis is coming off a 100-yard performance in last week’s loss to Ole Miss.

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Prediciting every SEC teams leading rusher in 2022

Here are projections for the top running backs in the SEC next year.

The 2021 season may have just ended, but it is never too early to look ahead to next year.

The SEC has embraced the pass-heavy offences that are sweeping the college football landscape but that has not prevented the conference from continued to have some of the best running backs in the country. That should once again be the case in 2022 as several running backs will be looking to build on previous seasons and several talented backs have transferred in from other conferences.

Here is an early look at every team’s leading rusher next season.