KNOX — Six nights ago, Knox senior Myles McLaughlin accomplished two very important tasks:
He led 11-0 Knox back to the 3A sectional title game, and moved into the top spot on the Indiana all-time rushing list.
“I don’t even know what I’m feeling right now,” McLaughlin told WSBT22 after the game. “It’s quite crazy to be honest.”
11,004 career rushing yards and 1092 points scored to date, no one in Indiana high school football history has more in both categories than McLaughlin.
“I always told myself I was going to do big things and it’s finally paying off,” McLaughlin says. “I couldn’t do it without my teammates. My offensive line is great. That was our goal to jump out on [Griffith] early and that’s what we did.”
“He’s being doing this since freshman year, but for two years he had to share the load with another running back,” Knox coach Russ Radtke says. “If you took those running backs totals, he’d probably have another 2000 or more. So right now, he’s on a mission.”
The mission for the nation’s leader in rushing yards and touchdowns continues on Friday against Marian in a rematch of the sectional championship a year ago.
“Let’s get back on the bandwagon and find out what it’s going to be because you start out with 64, 32 and now there’s only 16 left. Now it’s hard,” Radtke says of Friday night’s challenge. “Records are important but the team is most.”
And there is one more record Myles he could break along the way.
McLaughlin sits 1,120 yards from the national career rushing record holder, who gave him a special message this week.
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On a national sports talk show, Baltimore Ravens star Derrick Henry said of McLaughlin, “He’s a beast, go break the record. Records are meant to be broken. I had it for 10-plus years, go break it. Go break it. I hope you win the state championship with it.”
