Kendrick Green started every game of his rookie season in 2021 until he suffered a late-season injury, after which he dressed for the final couple of games as an emergency reserve. A year later, he was a weekly healthy scratch. Now in 2023, he knows where he stands. “I gotta do what I have to not just to have a role but to make the team”, he told Chris Adamski of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. But it goes deeper than that.
A third-round pick seemingly hand-selected to be groomed as Maurkice Pouncey’s successor after the perennial Pro Bowl center retired, Green didn’t take long to be put into the starting lineup.