Career Stats:
| Rush YD | Rush TD | Receiving YD | Receiving TD | P/K YD | P/K TD |
Rozier | 4780 | 49 | 216 | 2 | 449 | 1 |
Phillips | 2777 | 30 | 192 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Green | 3880 | 42 | 300 | 3 | 100 | 0 |
Abdullah | 4588 | 39 | 690 | 7 | 1908 | 2 |
I've got to give Ameer some love, as he's the statistical leader in All Purpose Yards at NU. He was just 200 yards shy of Rozier on the ground -
AND he racked up almost 700 yards receiving AND another +1900 yards on P/K Returns.
For comparison, Johnny Rodgers managed 2300 special teams yards.
Ameer was basically equivalent to the rushing and P/K production of TWO different Heisman winners, combined. He almost caught Rozier on the ground and he was a respectable 2nd place to The Jett on Special Teams.
The other three guys are what I'd classify as prototypically running backs (ie: Barry Sanders, Herschel Walker, etc), but Ameer was just an all-purpose guy who racked up yards and TDs whenever, and however, he obtained the ball. It's also worth noting he got a ton of those yards backing up Burkhead and Helu, who weren't exactly disappointments in their own production.
The other thing to remember is that Rozier, LP and Green all had championship-level talent around them at OL and killer Blackshirt squads that could get the ball back for the offense to capitalize. Ameer had, like... TMagic/Armstrong and Kenny Bell? Burkhead? And a couple of guys like Nate Gerry and Randy Gregory to try and get the ball back to the offense. Ameer by far and away carried his teams to wins more than the other guys, IMO.