Jacob Carl Green (born January 21, 1957) is a former
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
defensive end
Defensive end (DE) is a defensive position in the sport of gridiron football.
This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations over the years have substantially changed how the position is ...
. He played
college football for
Texas A&M
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...
.
Green was an
All-American selection in
1979
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after compiling 134
tackles
Tackle may refer to:
* In football:
** Tackle (football move), a play in various forms of football
** Tackle (gridiron football position), a position in American football and Canadian football
** Dump tackle, a forceful move in rugby of picking u ...
and was a then school-record 20
quarterback sacks. Green’s 37 career sacks still rank second in A&M history behind
Aaron Wallace
Aaron Wallace (born April 17, 1967) is a former American football linebacker who played his entire career for the NFL's Raiders franchise. He played college football for Texas A&M.
Wallace attended Dallas Franklin D. Roosevelt High School (Da ...
’s 42 career sacks. Green owns school records for career
fumbles
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caused (12) and season fumbles caused (six in 1978).
Green was a first-round
draft
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pick (10th overall) in the
1980 NFL draft
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by the
Seattle Seahawks. In his 13-year
National Football League
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career, Green played 12 seasons for the
Seattle Seahawks, as number 79, and one season for the
San Francisco 49ers
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. Green recorded 97.5 career sacks for the Seahawks (unofficially 116; sacks became an official NFL statistic in 1982, Green's third season),
a team record and at the time of his retirement good for number three on the all-time sacks leaderboard behind only
Reggie White
Reginald Howard White (December 19, 1961 – December 26, 2004) was an American professional football player who played defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. He played college football for ...
and
Lawrence Taylor.
References
External links
Green on Seahawk page*
1957 births
Living people
American football defensive ends
People from Houston
Players of American football from Texas
African-American players of American football
San Francisco 49ers players
Seattle Seahawks players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
Texas A&M Aggies football players
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
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