The Tulane Green Wave proceed to lose gamers to the switch portal.
Tulane RB Makhi Hughes, one of the productive ball carriers within the nation, entered the switch portal on Friday, per ESPN’s Max Olson.
Hughes’ announcement comes a couple of weeks after former Tulane QB Darian Mensah signed with Duke. After making their third consecutive journey to the AAC title sport, the Inexperienced Wave have now misplaced 12 scholarship gamers to the portal this month.
Hughes made his presence identified in his two seasons at Tulane. In 2023, the redshirt sophomore rushed for 1,378 yards and 7 touchdowns whereas eclipsing 100 rush yards seven occasions all through the season.
The 2024 season was a lot of the identical for Hughes with 1,401 rush yards, 17 touchdowns (two receiving) and 7 video games with no less than 100 yards on the bottom. According to Sports-Reference, Hughes ranks tenth within the nation in rush yards this season.
Hughes’ success throughout each of his seasons at Tulane earned him back-to-back first-team All-AAC honors.
Whereas Hughes is probably not as effectively often known as among the gamers above him on the rush-yards checklist, he was an enormous a part of the Inexperienced Wave’s success the final two seasons.
Wherever he decides to take his abilities to subsequent, count on Hughes to change into extra of a family identify, because the gifted RB nonetheless has two extra seasons of eligibility remaining.
