SLIPPERY ROCK — On a Slippery Rock High football team that is putting up gaudy numbers, perhaps no one is logging more jaw-dropping statistics than sophomore wingback Ryan Lauster.

Absurd, unimaginable, inconceivable and any other adjective one can think of may not do it justice:

Lauster has gained 424 yards rushing this season in six games ... on 12 carries. That’s 35.3 yards per attempt.

His four rushing touchdowns have covered 39, 52, 65 and 70 yards for an average of 56.5 per TD.

His eight non-scoring runs have covered 198 yards. That’s still a 24.8 yards per carry.

Toss out a 2-yard run against Central Tech and Lauster is averaging 38.4 yards per attempt.

“It’s been really special,” Lauster said. “It’s been fun, too.”

The undefeated Rockets (6-0) have had a lot of fun running the football this season.

Lauster is just one of an 18-headed attack.

Yes, 18 Slippery Rock players have at least one rushing attempt this season. Nine have at least 100 yards on the season and the same number are averaging more than 10 yards per carry.

As a team, the Rockets are gaining 11 yards per rushing attempt as they head into Friday night’s home game against rival Grove City.

Even Eagles’ coach Jeff Bell has been in awe of what Slippery Rock has done this season.

He said speed has been the difference.

“They had five or six kids who scare the heck out of me by the way they run,” Bell said.

Lauster is at or near the top of that list.

An excellent baseball player who helped Slippery Rock to a District 10 championship last spring, Lauster is quickly making a name for himself on the football field, too.

Even he has been surprised by how successful he has been.

“I’m pretty shocked,” he said. “I’m not going to lie there.”

From play to play, Lauster has no idea if he will get the ball. When the Rockets break huddle, no one truly knows if their number will be called.

Slippery Rock’s flexbone option offense is predicated on reads by the quarterback.

“That’s the great thing about us,” Lauster said. “We have so many guys getting the ball and (quarterback Jake Whitmer) does a great job running the offense. He’s a smart player and he knows what to do.”

Lauster, at just 5-foot-6 and 145 pounds, doesn’t mind getting only a few carries per game. A lot of that has had to do with Slippery Rock being up so big in games and also with the Rockets’ spread-the-ball-around philosophy.

When he does get the ball, he said he looks to make the most of his opportunities.

That has been readily apparent.

“It all goes to the line,” Lauster said. “The downfield blocking has been amazing. Honestly, none of us would be able to do what we’ve been doing without them.”