 | This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Gary Green" American football – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
American football player
 Green with the Baylor Bears, c. 1976 | |||||||||
| No. 24, 27 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position: | Cornerback | ||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Born: | (1955-10-02) October 2, 1955 (age 69) San Antonio, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 187 lb (85 kg) | ||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||
| High school: | Sam Houston (TX) | ||||||||
| College: | Baylor | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1977 / round: 1 / pick: 10 | ||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Career NFL statistics | |||||||||
| |||||||||
Gary Francis Green (born October 2, 1955) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Baylor Bears and was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the 1977 NFL draft with the 10th overall pick. He played in the NFL from 1977 to 1985 and intercepted 33 passes over the course of his career. Green was selected to four Pro Bowls and five All-Pro teams during his career. He was inducted into the Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame in 2015.
References
- "2015 | Gary Green | Cornerback". Kansas City Chiefs. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
External links
Media related to Gary Green (American football) at Wikimedia Commons
| 1976 College Football All-America Team consensus selections | |
|---|---|
| Offense |
|
| Defense |
|
| Kansas City Chiefs 1977 NFL draft selections | |
|---|---|
|
 | This biographical article relating to an American football defensive back born in the 1950s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Players of American football from San Antonio
- All-American college football players
- American Conference Pro Bowl players
- American football cornerbacks
- Baylor Bears football players
- Kansas City Chiefs players
- Los Angeles Rams players
- National Conference Pro Bowl players
- 21st-century African-American sportsmen
- 20th-century African-American sportsmen
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football defensive back, 1950s birth stubs