EMERSON BOOZER
Halfback
No. 32
Maryland State
"Before the Jets' eighth game last year, predictions were being made that Emerson Boozer would break the league record for most touchdowns and emerge as the AFL's first non-kicking scoring champion. He already had 13 touchdowns (ten of them on the ground) and rushed for 442 yards, which stood as the season high for the Jets. But the eighth game, in which he had his right knee tackled mangled on a tackle by the Chiefs' Willie Mitchell, was his last game of the season.
Now a full-fledged member of the fast-growing fraternity 'Veterans of Knee Operations' the 5-11, 207-pounder is back to fulfill those high expectations.
He was the Jets' sixth-round draft choice when he came out of Maryland State in 1966."
-Jack Zanger, Pro Football 1968
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