Every SEC team lost some offensive firepower. Some must replace their offensive MVP. Others are more fortunate and still have multiple candidates preparing for spring ball.

One common factor on every campus: Somebody’s going to bust out in 2019.

Last year at this time, everybody predicted Benny Snell would be Kentucky’s best offensive player, but how many had Trayveon Williams adding nearly 1,000 yards to his 2017 rushing total or Ke’Shawn Vaughn nearly breaking Vanderbilt’s single-season rushing record just 2 years after Ralph Webb set it?

The SEC always produces a mix of staples, surprises and breakout stars.

This prediction of every SEC team’s offensive MVP reflect that.

Alabama: Tua Tagovailoa

Skinny: No need to overthink the obvious. Najee Harris and Jerry Jeudy are going to have huge years, too, but Tagovailoa’s junior season could be historic. There will be zero pressure to even partially share the snaps, which mean’s Tim Couch’s single-season SEC yards mark (4,275) and Drew Lock’s single-season SEC TD mark (44) are in danger of falling. Tagovailoa nearly broke both records last year despite averaging just 24 passes a game.

Arkansas: Ben Hicks

Skinny: Chad Morris isn’t terribly concerned about all the feels. He made that obvious in his pursuit of Kelly Bryant. He made it even more obvious after failing to land Bryant because then he went out and got Hicks. It’s a far different league, so don’t read too much into Hicks’ gaudy numbers at SMU, or how they dipped after Morris left. Focus instead on the fact Morris wanted and got him specifically not only to run this season but to get the next QB ready for 2020.

Auburn: JaTarvious Whitlow

Skinny: No, he wasn’t Kerryon Johnson, but you could argue Whitlow was Auburn’s best offensive player as a true freshman. Whitlow will be running behind a veteran offensive line, and you better believe Gus Malzahn is going to lean on that run game maybe more than ever in what could be a make-or-break season with a new starter at QB.

Florida: Feleipe Franks

Skinny: Lamical Perine is a much more obvious candidate. The standout WRs are back, too, as is the versatile Kadarius Toney.  There is no shortage of playmakers in Gainesville, no shortage of MVP candidates.

Because Franks struggled so much and looked so lost for 2 years under Jim McElwain, most already counted him out before Dan Mullen called his first play. I wasn’t one of those guys. I wrote last offseason that Franks has so much arm talent, as much as anybody in the league, really, that I wasn’t going to give up on him until Mullen did.

Clearly, Mullen knows what he has. Franks responded with a 23-TD, 6-INT redshirt sophomore season. Few thought those numbers were attainable. If he takes a similar jump in what most think will be his final season, Florida could have its first 30-TD passer since Tim Tebow.

Georgia: D’Andre Swift

Skinny: I’d love to see Kirby Smart turn everything over to Jake Fromm. Maybe Smart saw the Playoff semifinals, which featured the 3 most explosive QBs in the country. And, most important, two championship coaches who realized even they needed to take advantage of the generational talents they had behind center.

Maybe Smart allows Fromm to throw it 32 times a game, instead of 22.

The safer bet is D’Andre Swift leads the SEC in rushing and scoring. Swift has that kind of talent. Georgia’s backfield is loaded — isn’t it always? — but Swift is the biggest threat in the bunch.

Kentucky: Lynn Bowden

Skinny: Kentucky’s offense will undergo a major facelift in 2019. Benny Snell is gone and so are the days of lining him up in the Wildcat and running it 7 consecutive times to close out a game.

Bowden is on the short list of the SEC’s most exciting players to watch. He doesn’t require 40-yard go routes, either. Which is good because that’s not exactly Terry Wilson’s forte.

Look for Kentucky to use Bowden the way Georgia uses Mecole Hardman, only multiply the touches. By a lot. All-purpose. All the time.

LSU: John Emery

Skinny: Joe Burrow is the more obvious, much safer choice. He, too, has lots of returning weapons on the outside. He’s a candidate to become LSU’s fourth 3,000-yard passer — and first since Zach Mettenberger in 2013.

But nothing brings Tiger Stadium to life quite like a 65-yard run off tackle.

Nick Brossette played admirably in 2018, reaching 1,000 yards as a first-time starter. But he wasn’t a home-run hitter. Brossette had only 5 runs longer than 20 yards. Derrius Guice led the SEC with 19 such runs in 2016. Leonard Fournette led the SEC with 18 such runs in 2015. Both led the SEC in 40+ yard runs, too.

Big, explosive bursts. That’s LSU football. Emery has that ability. There will be competition for carries, but Emery could be LSU’s next great in-state RB.

Mississippi State: Kylin Hill

Skinny: Do you realize Hill only averaged 10.7 carries per game in 2018? He certainly made the most of them. Hill averaged 6.3 yards per carry — good for 6th in the SEC.

Those carries obviously will increase, perhaps double, in 2019. Part of that will be Joe Moorhead’s desire to put the ball in the hands of his best player. Part of it will be that Keytaon Thompson isn’t going to run as often or as well as Nick Fitzgerald.

Missouri: Larry Rountree

Skinny: Kelly Bryant is intriguing. And there aren’t many tight ends in the country better than Albert Okwuegbunam, but Rountree topped 1,200 yards rushing and wasn’t even the focus of the offense.

With Drew Lock gone, he will be in 2019. With few exceptions, the days of an SEC RB averaging 30 carries a game are gone, but Rountree only averaged 17  in 2018. If that gets close to 25, he might challenge Devin West’s program-record of 1,578 rushing yards or Brad Smith’s program-record of 18 rushing TDs.

Ole Miss: Scottie Phillips

Skinny: Phillips might have been the SEC’s biggest offensive surprise in 2018. Not only for his performance (928 yards, 12 TDs), but the fact he somehow overshadowed The Air Show that Ole Miss become.

I say that knowing Jordan Ta’amu nearly threw for 4,000 yards, but who didn’t predict gaudy passing numbers from that offense?

This time last year, we weren’t even sure who would win the RB1 job. Now we’re wondering whether Phillips is one of the 5 best RBs in the loaded SEC.

South Carolina: Bryan Edwards

Skinny: Will Muschamp had a nice recruiting season, but his biggest win was keeping Edwards, his best offensive player.

Edwards certainly seemed NFL ready after co-starring with Deebo Samuel in 2018. It’ll be his show in 2019.

Edwards has been remarkably consistent the past two seasons, sometimes with Samuel on the field, sometimes as the top target. The next step is to find the end zone more often. He has 16 career TDs. It’s not unrealistic or unfair to expect him to reach double figures in 2019.

Tennessee: Eric Gray

Skinny: This is a leap of faith, sure, but there’s also an opportunity. Ty Chandler isn’t going anywhere, but he’s also battled injuries, and Tennessee’s run game hasn’t exactly been a threat since Jalen Hurd/Alvin Kamara left.

There’s room to grow. Gray is going to get an opportunity early as a freshman, maybe immediately.

That will play out, but there’s no question about who represents the future. Without question, that’s the 3-time Mr. Football from Tennessee.

Texas A&M: Kellen Mond

Skinny: Can Mond win the SEC Offensive Player of the Year? You have to like his chances in Year 2 under offensive-minded coach Jimbo Fisher.

Mond wasn’t even a lock to win the starting job last offseason. All he did was throw for 3,107 yards and 24 TDs. That was despite completing just 57 percent of his passes. If he can clean that up — again, Year 2 with Fisher should help in that regard — he has the talent and weapons to put up 3,500 yards and 30+ TDs.

There’s no Trayveon Williams this season. The Aggies will go as far as Mond’s right arm takes them.

Vanderbilt: Ke’Shawn Vaughn

Skinny: Almost every team has multiple options for this prediction. Vaughn might be the surest bet. The gap between what he brings — 1,244 yards, 12 TDs last season — and the questions surrounding the rest of the unit might be the biggest in the SEC.

Vanderbilt is starting over at quarterback. That’s not easy for the best teams. Much like when Vandy leaned on Ralph Webb as Kyle Shurmur was finding his way, expect that pattern to continue with Vaughn in 2019. Vaughn only had 157 carries last season. He didn’t really get going or become a focal point until the final 5 games. He ripped off 506 yards and 5 TDs in his final 4 SEC games and closed with a career-high 243 in the bowl game against Baylor.

Numbers only tell part of the story, but he might be the SEC’s biggest long-distance threat, too. He led the SEC with 10 runs of 40 yards or more, 6 of 60 yards or more. Nobody else had more than 5 runs of 40+ yards, and nobody else even more than 2 60+ yard runs.