Green-Ellis carrying load for Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. - BenJarvus Green-Ellis will run by you if he can. The Mississippi tailback will run over you if he has to. And he&#39;ll knock you down if you happen to find him without the ball in his hands.<br> <br> He is everything Ole Miss coach Ed Orgeron hoped he would be the heart and soul of an offense that desperately needs both.<br> <br> ``He can take a little hole and make a big one,&#39;&#39; Orgeron said. ``He always seems to be falling forward. He&#39;s very consistent and at the end of the day it looks like he&#39;s going to have 100 yards. Our team depends on him and he&#39;s very reliable. He&#39;s sort of our workhorse.&#39;&#39;<br> <br> And the junior loves being in harness.<br> <br> He has more carries (142) and raw yards (627) than any other back in the Southeastern Conference. His average of 89.6 yards per game is third in the league and his five touchdowns trail only the six scored by Darren McFadden of Arkansas, Ole Miss&#39; opponent this Saturday.<br> <br> ``I guess you could say I&#39;ve always been like that,&#39;&#39; Green-Ellis said of his multiple skills. ``I&#39;m more a whatever-it-takes type of person, so if I&#39;ve got to run over somebody or one on one beat somebody to the outside or make a move or whatever it takes, that&#39;s what I&#39;ve got to do.&#39;&#39;<br> <br> Ole Miss has asked him to do all those things and more. And he&#39;s quickly caught the attention of opposing coaches in the SEC.<br> <br> At No. 15 Arkansas (5-1, 3-0 SEC), Houston Nutt has two of the SEC&#39;s top five rushers No. 1 McFadden and No. 5 Felix Jones. But he can appreciate what Green-Ellis brings to the game.<br> <br> ``He&#39;s a very, very physical runner,&#39;&#39; Nutt said. ``He&#39;s very fast and has great vision. But he really brings a toughness to their team.&#39;&#39;<br> <br> His is the kind of toughness the young, rebuilding Rebels (2-4, 1-3) need. The 5-foot-11, 211-pounder from New Orleans has been the only consistent force on Ole Miss&#39; inconsistent offense.<br> <br> He hadn&#39;t missed an opportunity until a shoulder injury sidelined him for most of the fourth quarter and overtime in a loss last Saturday to Alabama. His absence reminded the Rebels just how far they&#39;ve advanced thanks to his decision to transfer closer to home from Indiana.<br> <br> ``We would be all right (without him), but he brings a huge impact to the team,&#39;&#39; said wide receiver Mike Wallace, who calls Green-Ellis his ``right-hand man.&#39;&#39; ``I couldn&#39;t even tell you where we&#39;d be without him.&#39;&#39;<br> <br> Green-Ellis rushed for 1,732 yards in two seasons at Indiana. He transferred because he said he wanted to be closer to New Orleans where his grandparents live.<br> <br> He said he has found life in the SEC to be very similar to what he faced in the Big Ten, where he had a 203-yard performance against Penn State as a freshman. The population around the line of scrimmage has increased, however.<br> <br> ``You see a lot of eight-, nine-man boxes here lately, so you&#39;ve just got to get used to big-time college football,&#39;&#39; he said. ``In the SEC, we play with a lot of speed down here at every position defensive line, linebacker, (defensive backs) so you&#39;ve got to just step up and meet the challenge every week.&#39;&#39;