Doing some number crunching this week.

If you haven’t been paying attention, there is a Lancaster-Lebanon League running back who is on pace for a (wait for it) 2,000-yard season – regular season. That’s right – 2,000 rushing yards in 10 regular-season games.

He is Conestoga Valley senior RB Kevin Kelley, and he’s off to a whopper of a start for the Buckskins, who are 2-0 in Section 2 and 4-1 overall heading into their Week 6 home game against Solanco.

Through five weeks, Kelley has a league-high 153 carries for a league-best 1,020 yards and league-leading 13 touchdown runs.

So if you crunch the numbers, Kelley, should he remain on this pace, is on pace to rush for 2,040 yards in the regular season, which would be one heck of an accomplishment.

So who was the last L-L League back to pull off that trick?

You have to go back to 1996, when Lebanon Catholic’s “Touchdown” Tommy Long put together one of the best individual seasons in L-L League history.

In 10 games Long carried 292 times for 2,264 yards (7.8 per pop) and he scored 35 touchdowns. He scored 212 points that season, which at the time was a state record.

That same season, Cocalico’s Tab Musser rushed for 1,942 yards on 257 carries in 11 games. Musser and the Eagles fell to Manheim Central 41-9 in the first round of the District 3 Triple-A playoffs, and the Barons held Musser to 90 yards in that game. Musser had 1,852 yards in the regular season – second to Long’s 2,264 yards.

Kelley is not on pace to top Long’s output. But he is the only L-L League back through the first five weeks on pace for a 2,000-yard regular season. So keep an eye on Witmer over the next five weeks.