Dana Holgorsen addressed perhaps the most discussed topic surrounding his offense and thus his football team at his news conference Tuesday. Dreamius Smith, he of the three longest runs of the season and one touchdown in each of the past four games, to say nothing of somewhat superior statistics at that position, will get more carries against Kansas State.

“Probably.”

“He had his best game last week,” Holgorsen said. “Against TCU, I can’t tell you he had his best game. It wasn’t. He got one run on them, but he didn’t have his best game. Last week, he played his best game.”

Smith sparked a scoring drive against Baylor four games ago and scored on a 9-yard run as WVU outscored the Bears 27-7 the rest of the game. He closed the win at Oklahoma State with a 40-yard touchdown run, which then was the team’s longest run of the season. He eclipsed that against TCU with a 50-yard run on a drive that ended with his 5-yard touchdown run to put the Mountaineers ahead 20-14 in the third quarter.

WVU’s offense stagnated for much of the game against Texas, but Smith’s 9-yard touchdown run cut the Texas lead to 24-10 and his 62-yard run and his 11-yard reception a play later set up Smallwood’s 4-yard run to make it 26-16.

Smith was the fourth running back to carry the ball in the first half, where he had one carry for no gain. He was the first to carry the ball after halftime.

“One thing we talked about at halftime was we were playing a lot of backs at the beginning,” WVU offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson said. “As some point, we’ve got to figure out which one has the hot hand. We felt like Dreamius did, and he’s shown time after time he’s going to make big plays, which he did again.”