Watch: Kyle Monangai puts Rutgers football up on Wagner

Kyle Monangai rumbles in for Rutgers football’s first touchdown of the game.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — A two-yard touchdown run got Rutgers football up early on Wagner as Kyle Monangai continued his strong form to start the season.

Monangai’s two-yard dive into the end zone secured a 7-0 lead for Rutgers at 7:52 in the first quarter. It was the punctuation point on an 11-play, 62-yard drive that featured all runs.

The drive featured the first collegiate start for Gavin Wimsatt. The quarterback would throw his first career touchdown pass later in the first quarter.

It was Monangai’s sixth-career touchdown run. Last week in Rutgers’ season opening 22-21 win at Boston College, Monangai had 64 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries.

Here is Monangai’s touchdown run:

 

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The emergence of Monangai in the backfield is important for Rutgers to offset the loss of Isiah Pacheco. The team’s leading rusher last season, the All-Big Ten selection was a seventh-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs and made the 53-man roster after an impressive training camp and preseason.

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