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Pitt Starting RB Leaves UNC Game with Injury

The Pitt Panthers lost their top tailback during the loss to North Carolina.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Starting RB Leaves UNC Game with Injury
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PITTSBURGH -- At the tail end of a brutal loss to the North Carolina Tar Heels, the Pitt Panthers lost one of their best offensive players to an injury. 

Pitt's starting running back, Rodney Hammond, went down late in the fourth quarter with what looked like an injury to his hand or wrist. 

Trainers tended to Hammond on the field and then brought him back to the sideline, then to the locker room. Hammond did not return to the sideline after leaving the game. 

C'Bo Flemister took the vast majority of the snaps as Hammond's understudy and finished the day with one rush for 10 yards and dropped his lone target. 

Hammond finished his night with 14 rushes for 83 yards and a touchdown and caught three of his five targets for 11 yards in the 41-24 loss to No. 17 North Carolina. 

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Stephen Thompson
STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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