Should i keep benjarvus green ellis

Green-Ellis began playing competitive football 12 years ago at the high school level in New Orleans before heading off to college at Indiana University and Ole Miss. Then he caught on with the Patriots. During that entire journey, his mom, LaTonia Green, has missed only one game. Now factor in the fact that she's been away from her son, living in Minnesota, for the past 17 years. Green went off to the University of Minnesota to study while her only son was just in elementary school, but the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports she wouldn't let the distance between them stop her from supporting him.

Traveling into blizzards and small college towns, Green-Ellis' mom missed that single game because of work obligations when his Indiana Hoosiers played a road game at Oregon his freshman season. Because Green-Ellis seems to be tapping back into a portion of his game that made him such a success during his latter seasons with the New England Patriots , and in his final two years of college ball at Mississippi.

The more he runs the way he did at the end of Sunday's win over the Chargers, the more the new nickname looks like one that will stick. As the Bengals prepare for an all but certain playoff appearance, they will need the "The Closer" to keep finishing games. When Green-Ellis is finishing games the way he did the last one, it's a sign Cincinnati is about to walk out of that stadium victorious. Cincinnati was able to win Sunday in large part because of Green-Ellis' 20 carries that went for 92 yards.

One of them, a 4-yard dive on the first play of the second quarter, gave the Bengals one of their two touchdowns. As meaningful as that early score was, Green-Ellis' final six runs of the game may have had even greater impact in the win.

The Bengals were up with just inside five minutes to play when the veteran kicked into bottom-of-the-ninth-inning gear. His patented pitch to shut down the Chargers' defense was his hard, straight-ahead style of pile-pushing running. Just like Rivera's cut fastball caused countless hitters to shake their heads over the years, Green-Ellis' penchant for picking up final-drive first downs confounded for San Diego's linemen and linebackers.

Once the Bengals began their game-ending drive with a yard pass down their sideline to a wide open A. Green , they knew it was officially time for the Green-Ellis takeover. With the ball well in San Diego territory, it was time to eat up clock and allow Green-Ellis to make up for a miscue he had on the previous drive. About three minutes earlier, Green-Ellis lost a fumble as he was stumbling forward into red zone territory at the end of a 5-yard run. The Chargers were down by 10, and the turnover gave San Diego a great opportunity to come back on the Bengals.

To put this in perspective, Green-Ellis is scoring roughly 7 touchdowns for every yards rushing and receiving. Why is this important? Well, it shows that Green-Ellis has a much heavier reliance on touchdowns than any other top back in the NFL.

I wrote this on Twitter yesterday, but relying on touchdowns in fantasy football is like trusting Kenny Britt with a camera phone. There are few guys in the league that you can truly draft for touchdowns. Little do people realize, but the Patriots have actually had more rushing attempts than the Bengals over the last two seasons.

And last year, in the pass-happiest season ever in the NFL, New England ran the ball just 17 times less than Cincinnati. Yet, New England has also thrown the ball nearly times more than Cincinnati over the last two years. This is all relevant to the BenJarvus Green-Ellis argument because we must realize the opportunity he had in New England.