Player Dossier

2020-2025

Sam Houston

Elijah Green

RB • 5'11" • 210 lbs • Roswell, GA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Elijah Green leans balanced backfield option traits and 46 efficiency.

Usage / Role

28%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

54

Solid production for a back

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Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

72

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · North Carolina

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
North Carolina • Indiana • Sam Houston
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Louisiana Tech

Player Story

Elijah Green built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a running back from Roswell, GA wearing No. 21, spending time with Indiana, North Carolina, and Sam Houston. The clearest part of Elijah Green's career...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8648

Blessed Trinity Catholic · Roswell, GA

Committed To
North Carolina
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Elijah Green, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · North Carolina. Elijah Green leans balanced backfield option traits and 46 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
1,496
Rushing yards
1,256
Receiving yards
240
Touchdowns
17

Quick Answers

Elijah Green quick answers

Latest team and position
Sam Houston · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
1,496
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 33 games
Best season
2022 Postseason · North Carolina
Top game
Louisiana Tech
Recruit profile
3-star · Blessed Trinity Catholic · North Carolina
High school pipeline
Blessed Trinity Catholic · 21 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 21 · Senior
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
524 scrimmage yards · RB 199th (top 28%) · Conference USA 37th (top 15%) · National 462nd (top 17%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina355550024.5
2021 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina439390029.6
2022 PostseasonNorth Carolina950500075.7
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina9615508107975.7
2023 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina212120029
2024 Regular SeasonIndiana72012010537.9
2025 Regular SeasonSam Houston8524391133358.6

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Indiana to Sam HoustonP4 to G5/FCS76.1Jan 14, 2025
2024North Carolina to IndianaP4 to P479.6Nov 27, 2023

Elijah Green played RB for North Carolina, Indiana, and Sam Houston. Across 6 tracked seasons, Elijah Green recorded 1,256 rushing yards, 240 receiving yards, and 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with North Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Postseason

North Carolina paired 665 primary output with 51.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 46 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across North Carolina, Indiana, Sam Houston.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Louisiana Tech

Loss with 198 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston

Games

8

Scrimmage Yards / G

65.5

Efficiency

46

Usage

18.8

Consistency

55.9

Best Game by takeover score

Louisiana Tech

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UNLV: 54. Western Kentucky: 71. Hawai'i: 75. Texas: 7. UTEP: 6. Louisiana Tech: 198. Oregon State: 18. Florida International: 95

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. UNLV: 9 by 53.1. Western Kentucky: 13 by 33.2. Hawai'i: 13 by 42.8. Texas: 3 by 9.7. UTEP: 5 by 12.5. Louisiana Tech: 11 by 100. Oregon State: 7 by 33.6. Florida International: 12 by 83

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins18 · Games = 1 · -54.3 vs Losses
Losses72.3 · Games = 7 · +54.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

8 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Louisiana Tech

Best efficiency game

100 vs Louisiana Tech

Result
Sat 11/29vs Florida InternationalL 16-5611988.9001-37.9
Sun 11/9@ Oregon StateW 21-176223.7001-42.6
Sat 11/1@ Louisiana Tech100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yardsL 14-551019119.1021718
Wed 10/15vs UTEPL 17-35561.2001.2
Sun 9/21@ TexasL 0-552-2-10192.3
Sun 9/7@ Hawai'iL 20-371030303455.8
Sat 8/30vs UNLVL 21-388364.5001186
Sat 8/23@ Western KentuckyL 24-416101.7007615.5

Player Story

Elijah Green story

Elijah Green built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a running back from Roswell, GA wearing No. 21, spending time with Indiana, North Carolina, and Sam Houston. The clearest part of Elijah Green's career was his backfield work: 1,256 rushing yards, 243 carries, 15 rushing touchdowns, and 240 receiving yards across 33 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with North Carolina. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 240 receiving yards, 2 tackles, and 14 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 33 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Indiana, North Carolina, and Sam Houston.

The arc is straightforward: Elijah Green moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    North Carolina

    2020-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Indiana

    2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Sam Houston

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120222022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina5543.45.6
2021 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina3935.54.8-16
2022 PostseasonNorth Carolina66551.726.2626
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina66551.726.20
2023 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina1234.82.6-653
2024 Regular SeasonIndiana20158.67.3189
2025 Regular SeasonSam Houston5244618.8323

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 77 Louisiana Tech

Week 10 · L 14-55 · Conference game

Loss with 198 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

87.6 takeover

198 scrimmage yards and 22 usage.

#2

@ Virginia

Week 10 · W 31-28 · Conference game

113

Scrimmage Yards

81.9 takeover

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

113 scrimmage yards and 34.8 usage.

#3

vs NC State

Week 13 · L 27-30 · Conference game

103

Scrimmage Yards

76 takeover

Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.

103 scrimmage yards and 40.6 usage.

#4

vs Georgia Tech

Week 12 · L 17-21 · Conference game

87

Scrimmage Yards

75.7 takeover

Loss with 87 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

87 scrimmage yards and 24.5 usage.

#5

vs Florida International

Week 1 · W 31-7

82

Scrimmage Yards

75.3 takeover

Win with 82 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

82 scrimmage yards and 9.1 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Postseason · North Carolina

665 primary output · 51.7 efficiency · 26.2 usage

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#2

2022 Regular Season · North Carolina

75.7

665 primary · 51.7 efficiency · 26.2 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston

58.6

524 primary · 46 efficiency · 18.8 usage

Milestones

1

100+ rush yards

1

150+ scrimmage yards

4

2+ TD games