Yahoo! Sports · Jun 15, 2016
Draymond Green, tight end? Not based on his MSU spring game cameo (Shutdown Corner)
played two snaps of high-level football before deciding to stick with hoops (AP)After Tony Gonzalez, Antonio Gates and Jimmy Graham, it's natural for football fans to wonder which basketball power forwards could have played in the NFL.
We've been down the "could LeBron James have played in the NFL?" road a lot over the last decade, but here's another name from the NBA Finals that is interesting to think about: Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors.
Why not, right? He's got good size at 6-foot-7, 230 pounds. He's obviously agile and athletic. if Gates could go from never having played college football to being a future Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end, why couldn't Green do it too?
