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Mark Richt isn’t ready to predict the winner of Georgia’s tailback competition. He won’t even predict that one winner will emerge in the effort to replace first-round draft pick Knowshon Moreno.

Georgia fans, brace for a tailback-by-committee approach.

“We are going to find out who is the best back, if there is such a thing,” the Georgia coach said this week. “We might have a situation where two or three are the best backs. I doubt one man will get every carry. More than likely it will be by committee.”

Moreno, who signed with the Denver Broncos on Friday, will not be easy to replace. Along with Hershel Walker, Moreno became the only other Georgia player to rush for more than 1,000 yards in consecutive seasons when he went for 1,400 yards and 16 touchdowns last year.

Caleb King, who entered preseason practice as the No. 1 tailback, was a distant second with only 247 yards rushing and one touchdown.

King does not have a lock on the starting job, but he said just being No. 1 on the depth chart motivated him to work harder in the summer.

“Of course it’s a good feeling,” King said Thursday. “Anybody dreams of being a starting player at a top program like Georgia. I’m not going to let it get to my head. I’m still trying to work just like I don’t have that (job) so I can be better at the end.”

King, a sophomore, said he looked for extra ways to prepare.

“I helped my conditioning and my strength this summer,” he said. “It’s not that I wasn’t happy with my conditioning, but you can always make it better. I did that by doing extra sprints at the end of conditioning or just going into the weight room when no one is in there just to lift some extra weights.”