Kevin Greene
Greene at Packers preseason training in August 2011
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| New York Jets | |||||||||||
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| Position: | Outside linebackers coach | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | July 31, 1962 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Schenectady, New York | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 245 lb (111 kg) | ||||||||||
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| College: | Auburn | ||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1985 / Round: 5 / Pick: 113 | ||||||||||
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| Tackles: | 773 |
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| Sacks: | 160.0 |
| Interceptions: | 5 |
| Forced fumbles: | 23 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
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Kevin Darwin Greene (born July 31, 1962) is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League for 15 years. Greene retired after the 1999 NFL season and currently ranks third amongst all-time sack leaders, leading the NFL twice in that category. He was a three-time All-Pro, was voted to the National Football League 1990s All-Decade Team, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.
Greene was a two-year starter and honorable mention All-conference selection as a senior at Granite City South High (Illinois). He also played basketball and was a high jumper for the track team. He is in the Granite City Sports Hall of Fame in Granite City, Illinois.
Greene played college football as a walk-on at Auburn University, and in 1984 won the Zeke Smith Award as Defensive Player of the Year. He had 69 career tackles as an outside linebacker and 11 sacks his senior year where he led the Southeastern Conference and won the Defensive Player of the Year Award in 1984.
He was selected by the Birmingham Stallions in the 1985 United States Football League Territorial Draft and later selected by the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League in the fifth round (113th overall) of the NFL Draft the same year. He earned a degree in Criminal Justice at Auburn. He completed ROTC while at Auburn and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Alabama Army National Guard. After playing his first year in the NFL, during the off season, he graduated from the RC-1-86 Armor Officer Basic Course, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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