Farrell Murchison has rushed for 604 yards and 7 touchdowns for the Winston-Salem State Rams this season after missing all of last season due to a battle with cancer.
Murchison had piled up 542 yards rushing and scored 4 touchdowns in 2017 in his first season with the Rams after a stellar career at Louisburg College where he was named the Offensive Player of the Year in 2015.
The Elizabethtown native returned to the gridiron in the Winston-Salem opener at UNC-Pembroke and rushed for 109 yards in a narrow 27-21 loss. Murchison broke loose for a 62-yard run in the third quarter of that game.
In a 21-14 loss to Catawba, Murchison carried 14 times for 51 yards and a touchdown. At Tuskegee Murchison rushed 18 times for 42 yards and banged into the end zone for the deciding touchdown on a 1-yard run in a 23-20 victory.
At Virginia Union, Murchison plowed into the end zone from a yard out to put the Rams up 15-10 in the fourth quarter, but a pair of late field goals by the Panthers resulted in a 16-15 WSSU loss.
Murchison opened the scoring with a 3-yard TD run against Bowie State, but the Bulldogs rallied for a 23-13 victory. The 6-1, 228-pound workhorse gained 57 yards on 16 rushes in a 23-7 win over Johnson C. Smith.
In the Furniture City Gridiron Classic in High Point, Murchison battered St. Augustine’s with touchdown runs of 5, 16 and 2 yards and set up an Ivan Caro field goal with a 50-yard dash. The East Bladen grad posted the best game of his Ram career with 134 yards rushing on 13 carries.
Murchison reeled off runs of 15, 10, 7 and 5 yards on the Rams second touchdown drive in a 21-0 victory over Livingstone and totaled 67 yards on 13 attempts. In a 21-0 loss to Shaw Murchison was a Ram standout with 96 yards rushing on 13 carries.
For the season, Murchison has averaged 5.1 yards per carry as Winston-Salem State has posted a 4-5 overall record and 3-3 mark in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Rams will host Fayetteville State on Saturday at 2 p.m. in their regular season finale.
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