“He’s a future NFL starter. Trust me,” said sophomore cornerback Brian George, whom the Huskers and many others have also offered and who had coaches from Georgia and Arkansas on hand to watch on this day. “He’s a guy. He’s big, obviously, he’s huge. He’s good, fast and just a freak athlete. They got a good one coming up there.”
Now, the tasks standing between Green and officially becoming a Husker play out in the low-slung brick apartment building that’s just across North Elmira Street from Highland’s west end zone. That’s where he lives in a three-bedroom apartment with his now-former teammates and where he’s working to graduate and meet the Division I qualifications that will allow him to move to Lincoln and become a student at UNL and — if all goes according to plan — a difference-making defensive lineman for head coach Scott Frost and company this fall.