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2021 Football Roster

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0 Al McKeller

  • Height 5-9
  • Weight 215
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Indianapolis, Ind.
  • Highschool Lawrence North

Biography

2021
Finished third in the 2021 Harlon Hill Award voting ... D2CCA First-Team All-America ... Don Hansen First-Team All-America selection ... First-Team All-MIAA ... rushed the ball 284 times for 1,601 yards, including 19 rushing touchdowns and one receiving score ... produced eight 100-yard rushing performances this season and has tallied 24 100-yard rushing games in his collegiate career ... his 284 carries ranked No. 4 in the nation and No. 1 in the MIAA ... ranked No. 4 in the nation in total rushing yards and No. 8 in the country in rushing yards per game (123.2) ... finished 2021 season as the NCAA Division II active career leader in all-purpose yards with 5,574 ... ranked first among active career leaders in rushing yards (5,159) ... rushed for 61 career touchdowns. 

Prior to Northwest:
Ranks first in GLVC record book and third at UIndy in career rushing (3,558) ... also both the conference's and school all-time leader in career rushing touchdowns (42) ... only two-time Harlon Hill candidate in UIndy history.

AWARDS
2019
Harlon Hill Award candidate
All-America Second Team (Associated Press)
All-America Honorable Mention (Don Hansen)
All-Super Region 3 First Team (CoSIDA)
All-Super Region 3 First Team (Don Hansen)
All-GLVC First Team
GLVC Offensive Player of the Week (10/28/19)
UIndy Offensive MVP
Academic All-GLVC

2018
Harlon Hill Award candidate
All-America Honorable Mention (D2Football.com)
All-Super Region Three First Team (CoSIDA)
GLVC Offensive Player of the Year
All-GLVC First Team
2x GLVC Offensive Player of the Week
UIndy Offensive MVP

2017
All-Super Region 3 Freshman of the Year (Don Hansen)
All-Super Region 3 Third Team (Don Hansen)
GLVC Freshman of the Year
All-GLVC First Team
GLVC Offensive Player of the Week (9/4/17)
UIndy Co-Offensive Freshman of the Year

2020-21
Did not play in the shortened spring season.

2019
Authored a record-breaking junior season, setting school and GLVC marks for career rushing TDs while becoming the first UIndy running back with three 1,000-yard seasons … also broke the conference's career rushing yards record on the way to becoming the first-ever Greyhound to earn a second Harlon Hill Award candidacy … named All-America Second Team by the Associated Press while garnering a third consecutive All-GLVC First Team nod … amassed 1,124 rushing yards and 17 rushing TDs, good for 20th and sixth in Division II, respectively … notched five 100-yard-rushing games on the season, upping his career total to a UIndy-record 17 … put up a season-high 184 yards and two touchdowns in a win versus Missouri S&T (10/26), earning his fourth career GLVC Player of the Week nod … scored three TDs on two occasions – at McKendree (9/21) and at William Jewell (10/5) … had 84 yards and a score in the Hounds’ playoff loss at Central Missouri (11/23) ... earned Academic All-GLVC accolades ... wore jersey No. 2, switching from No. 4 the previous two seasons.

2018
Notched second consecutive 1,000-yard season, rushing for an even 1,300 yards and a dozen touchdowns on the way to a number of postseason honors … rushing total was good for first in the GLVC, 14th in Division II and third on UIndy’s all-time single-season list … became just the ninth Greyhound to be named a finalist for the Harlon Hill Award … racked up six 100-yard games on the season, including 209 yards and two scores in a win versus playoff-bound Hillsdale in the regular-season finale (11/10) … racked up 137 rushing yards to help beat No. 19 Fort Hays State in the first round of the playoffs (11/17).

2017
Set UIndy freshman records with 1,134 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns … averaged 6.6 yards per carry, most for any GLVC player with at least 75 rush attempts … made a memorable collegiate debut with 206 rushing yards in a season-opening win versus No. 2 Grand Valley State; scored the game-winning touchdown on a 51-yard scamper with 3:43 to go … named the GLVC Offensive Player of the Week two days later and was also included in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd … rushing total versus GVSU marked just the third 200-yard performance by a Greyhound rusher since 1983* … went for 143 rushing yards and three TDs on just 11 carries versus Quincy – all coming in the first half … rushed for 144 yards and two scores in the playoff game versus Harding … racked up 10 rushing touchdowns in the final five games played.

HIGH SCHOOL
LN's career leader in rushing yards (3,524) ... one of only four running backs named to the prestigious IFCA Top-50 All-State Team as a senior ... also garnered 6A All-State Honorable Mention from the Associated Press ... named to the 2016 ALL-USA Central Indiana Super Team ... racked up a school-record 1,330 rushing yards and 22 total TDs as a senior on the way to securing Team MVP honors ... named to the 2017 Indiana North-South All-Star game roster ... honor roll student.

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