BATON ROUGE — Through three games this season, LSU football has played five different running backs, ranging from a senior in John Emery, who's now done for the season with a knee injury, a former walk-on-now-scholarship senior to two separate true freshmen.

Each tailback brings a little something different to the No. 16 Tigers' offense but none have really flashed. That is until this past Saturday against South Carolina when freshman Caden Durham went off for the Tigers, scoring twice along with leading the team with 11 carries for 98 yards. LSU (2-1, 1-0 SEC) rallied from 17 points down to beat the Gamecocks 36-33.

It was one of the best rushing performances for LSU in a while. Was it enough for the Duncanville, Texas, native to shoot to the top of the depth chart at tailback?

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"I think that's yet to be determined," LSU coach Brian Kelly said during his weekly news conference Monday. "I don't know if we're at a point where he's going to be 'the guy.' I think you're still going to have all of those guys that are going to be part of it.

"But he certainly saw the things that we were looking for."

Immediately following his team's win, Kelly lauded the part of Durham's game and how he ran the ball — making players miss tackles as well as breaking tackles — saying those are things running back must do in the SEC to be successful.

Per Pro Football Focus, Durham broke seven tackles and had 50 yards after contact against South Carolina.

"They were running some things inside with their tackles that were cutting off our combination blocks, which require patience to bounce that and he really saw well. He was able to get the ball outside," Kelly said. "You can't teach that. You can talk about it, you can say, 'This is what you need to do.' But you've got to just naturally see it.

"So vision, wherewithal to do in-game obviously is a positive for him moving forward."

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Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com.

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