Jacquez Green

Jacquez Green

No. 81, 80, 12
Wide receiver
Personal information
Date of birth: January 15, 1976 (1976-01-15)
Place of birth: Fort Valley, Georgia
High School: Peach County High School Fort Valley, Georgia
Height: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Weight: 172 lb (78 kg)
Career information
College: University of Florida
NFL Draft: 1998 / Round: 2 / Pick: 34
Debuted in 1998 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Last played in 2002 for the Detroit Lions
Career history
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1998–2001) Washington Redskins (2002) Detroit Lions (2002) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2003)* *Offseason and/or practice squad member only.
Career highlights and awards
SEC Championship (1995, 1996) Bowl Alliance National Championship (1996) First-team All-SEC (1997) Consensus All-American (1997)
Career NFL statistics as of 2002
Receptions	162
Receiving yards	2,311
Touchdowns	7
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Stats at DatabaseFootball.com

D'Tanyian Jacquez Green (born January 15, 1976) is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver and punt returner in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s. Green played college football for the University of Florida, and earned All-American honors. He was a second-round pick in the 1998 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Washington Redskins and the Detroit Lions of the NFL.

Early years

Green was born in Fort Valley, Georgia in 1976. He attended Peach County High School in Fort Valley, and was a member of the Peach County Trojans high school football, basketball and track and field teams. Green received all-state honors in football and basketball as a senior, and was also selected to play in the annual Georgia vs. Florida High School All-Star football game. Green played quarterback throughout high school, except for his junior season when the Peach County Trojans lost in the state title game; that season he played wide receiver and running back. He was also a member of the Peach County Trojans' state championship 4x100-meter relay team as a junior.

College career

Green received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played wide receiver for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1995 to 1997. He was a three-year letterman and a member of the 1996 Gators' Bowl Alliance national championship team, when he had seven catches for seventy-nine yards in the Gators' 52–20 Sugar Bowl victory over the Florida State Seminoles. Against the Auburn Tigers in 1997, he scored a rare triple—throwing a touchdown pass, catching one and running for one. Green suffered a major hip injury in the 1995 national championship game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He may best be remembered for a 58-yard reception from quarterback Doug Johnson late in the 1997 Florida-Florida State game that propelled the underdog Gators over the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles. He was a member of the Gators' Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship teams in 1995 and 1996, a first-team All-SEC selection and a consensus first-team All-American in 1997, and was one of the three finalists for the Biletnikoff Award. Green caught sixty-one passes for 1,024 yards and nine touchdowns as a junior before entering the NFL Draft.

Professional career

Green was a second round draft choice (thirty-fourth pick overall) of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1998 NFL Draft, and he played for the Buccaneers for four seasons from 1998 to 2001. Green's most productive seasons as a wide receiver were 1999, when he caught fifty-six passes for 791 yards with three touchdowns (only ten starts), and 2000, when he had fifty-one receptions for 773 yards. Before the 2002 season, he signed as a free agent with the Washington Redskins and re-united with former Florida Gators and Buccaneers teammate Reidel Anthony. He was released by the Redskins and signed by the Detroit Lions. Prior to the 2003 season, he signed with his former team, the Buccaneers, and retired. He ended his NFL career starting thirty-seven of the sixty-six games in which he played, registering 162 receptions for 2,311 yards and seven touchdowns.

Life after the NFL

Green is also an avid video game player, and he won the annual Madden Bowl in 2001 and 2002. Green served as the offensive coordinator for Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida for two successful seasons, and is now coaching at Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, Florida.

See also

• 1997 College Football All-America Team
• Florida Gators
• Florida Gators football, 1990–1999
• History of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• List of Detroit Lions players
• List of Florida Gators football players
• List of Washington Redskins players

Bibliography

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• Golenbock, Peter, Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002). ISBN 0-9650782-1-3.
• Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002). ISBN 1-58261-514-4.
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• Nash, Noel, ed., The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, Illinois (1998). ISBN 1-57167-196x.