Just four Carroll players reached the 1,000-yard rushing milestone in the five seasons preceding this one. In no single season since 1990 have more than three players from this county rushed for 1,000 yards.
Yet this season, in an age where more and more teams are running pass-heavy offenses, two Carroll players have already run for 1,000 yards and three others could get there tonight in the regular-season finale.
Century senior Tyrice Rock leads the county with 1,553 yards, including seven games with 100 or more yards and five games with 200 or more. He needs 267 tonight to pass Liberty's Calvin Stacey for the single-season county record. (With 25 rushing touchdowns, Rock has tied former Francis Scott Key running back Brad Stonesifer for the county record set back in 2001.)
North Carroll senior Dan Gebhart has 1,152 yards on the ground to go with nine touchdowns.
South Carroll running back Dylan McDermott has 998 yards and seems a shoo-in to reach 1,000 tonight against Westminster. Still, while 2 yards seems easily attainable, the Westminster defense held Rock to minus-1 yard on the ground in Week 7.
A pair of quarterbacks have a chance to make history.
In the modern era of Carroll football (since 1990), no quarterback has rushed for 1,000 yards in a season. But Manchester Valley senior Dom Frank (973 yards) and Winters Mill senior Wes Cook (938) are both on pace.
