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He’s bigger than his dad. He catches passes rather than trying to prevent receivers from catching them. But when he runs, Jared Green, formerly of Oakton High, the University of Virginia and Southern U, has what his old man, Darrell, calls “Green speed.”
And that speed – he has run 40 yards in 4.32 seconds — is a major reason why NFL teams might draft the 23-year-old next weekend even though he caught just 52 balls for 670 yards and four touchdowns during his 40 college games.
“Jared’s a big kid and he can run,” an NFL scout said after working out the 6-foot-1, 193-pound Green at Oakton this month. “When you’re getting later in the draft, you’re looking for things that Jared has that you can’t coach: size, speed and he’s a great kid. He learns well and he’s got the bloodlines and he’s been around the game his whole life.”
Indeed, Darrell Green had already played six of his record 20 Hall of Fame seasons at cornerback for the Redskins before Jared was born on April Fool’s Day 1989. However, like his dad, who dropped out of Texas A&I for nearly two years before returning and winding up a first-round pick in the 1983 draft, Jared didn’t have a totally smooth road to this point despite being the son of one of the most popular Redskins ever.
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He’s bigger than his dad. He catches passes rather than trying to prevent receivers from catching them. But when he runs, Jared Green, formerly of Oakton High, the University of Virginia and Southern U, has what his old man, Darrell, calls “Green speed.”
And that speed – he has run 40 yards in 4.32 seconds — is a major reason why NFL teams might draft the 23-year-old next weekend even though he caught just 52 balls for 670 yards and four touchdowns during his 40 college games.
“Jared’s a big kid and he can run,” an NFL scout said after working out the 6-foot-1, 193-pound Green at Oakton this month. “When you’re getting later in the draft, you’re looking for things that Jared has that you can’t coach: size, speed and he’s a great kid. He learns well and he’s got the bloodlines and he’s been around the game his whole life.”
Indeed, Darrell Green had already played six of his record 20 Hall of Fame seasons at cornerback for the Redskins before Jared was born on April Fool’s Day 1989. However, like his dad, who dropped out of Texas A&I for nearly two years before returning and winding up a first-round pick in the 1983 draft, Jared didn’t have a totally smooth road to this point despite being the son of one of the most popular Redskins ever.
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