NIC-10 Newswire: Sanders nears rushing-receiving record at Auburn

Auburn  has just one win this season, but running back Gavin Sanders has had one of the best-dual threat seasons in school history.

Heading into Thursday night's game against Jefferson, Sanders has 629 yards rushing and eight touchdowns and 632 yards receiving with another five touchdown catches.

If you include his 725 yards on punt and kick returns, he has 1,986 all-purpose yards this season for Auburn.

It is impossible to calculate an all-purpose record that includes receiving yards back more than a few years because the Rockford Register Star did not include that statistic in its yearly leaders lists.

Looking just at rushing and receiving and Sanders is likely about to set a school record.

The Knights have had just a handful of 1,000-yard rushers and none of those were featured receivers.

* In 1990, Craig Rideout led the NIC-9 with 1,334 yards rushing, but he had less than 202 yards receiving. That was the lowest published total on the conference receivers leaders list.
* In 1997, Terrell Goldsmith led the NIC-9 with 1,228 yards rushing, but he had less than 150 yards receiving.
* In 2016, Daquawn Bell had 1,213 yards rushing but less than 213 receiving.

Sanders is at 1,261 combined rushing and receiving yards.