The Las Vegas Raiders have re-signed a running back with Alabama football roots who was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on Wednesday.

It wasn’t 2022 NFL rushing leader Josh Jacobs.

On Friday, the Raiders announced they had signed Jacobs’ backup, Ameer Abdullah, to a contract extension.

Terms of the deal were not announced, but Abdullah signed a one-year contract when he joined Las Vegas in March 2022 and signed another one-year deal with team in March 23.

In his second season with the Raiders, Abdullah ran for 89 yards on 15 carries, caught 19 passes for 131 yards and returned 26 kickoffs for a 20.9-yard average in 2023. He was on the field for 216 offensive snaps and 256 special-teams plays.

In nine NFL seasons, Abdullah has played in 125 regular-season and two playoff games. In his regular-season appearances, Abdullah has run for 1,683 yards and six touchdowns on 428 carries, caught 163 passes for 1,207 yards and eight touchdowns and returned 142 kickoffs for a 24.6-yard average.

In his senior season at Homewood High School, Abdullah ran for 1,800 yards and 24 touchdowns, had 515 receiving yards and returned four punts for touchdowns for the Patriots.

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In his final three seasons at Nebraska, Abdullah ran for 4,438 yards and 36 touchdowns before entering the NFL as a second-round selection in the 2015 NFL Draft. With the Cornhuskers, Abdullah was a finalist for the Doak Walker Award, the Paul Hornung Award and the Wuerffel Trophy in 2014 as he became the first player in school history to record three consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons.

With the Detroit Lions, Abdullah led the NFL in kickoff-return yards as a rookie and was the team’s top ball-carrier in two of his first three seasons.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.