If Texas A&M is going to pull off a win against Miami in a windy, defensive-minded slugfest in the first round of the College Football Playoff, it will have to do so without one of its best offensive players.
Aggies running back Le’Veon Moss left his team’s game against the No. 10 Hurricanes on Saturday, Dec. 20 with an injury.
Moss had seven carries for 15 yards at the time of his injury.
A senior from Walker, Louisiana, Moss entered the day third on the team in rushing, with 70 carries for 389 yards (5.6 yards per carry) and six touchdowns.
Here’s the latest on Moss’ injury:
Le’Veon Moss injury update
With his team trailing Miami 3-0 in the third quarter, Moss limped off the field and went into the medical tent on the Texas A&M sideline at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.
ESPN cameras later showed Moss being taken back to the locker room.
Moss had been the Aggies’ top option out of the backfield before suffering an ankle injury in an Oct. 11 victory against Florida, which sidelined him for Texas A&M’s final six regular-season games.
Having been out the past two months, Moss’ availability for the playoff game against was in question in the days and weeks leading into the matchup against the Hurricanes.
He was listed as a game-time decision on the final playoff availability report. He ended up starting and getting two carries on Texas A&M’s opening drive.
With Moss out, the Aggies will lean largely on Rueben Owens II and EJ Smith, as well as quarterback Marcel Reed. Owens, a former five-star recruit, became Texas A&M’s primary running back after Moss’ injury and finished the regular season as the team’s leading rusher, with 618 rushing yards and five touchdowns while averaging 5.5 yards per carry.