Darrell Green

Darrell Green earns my deepest respect not for his legendary speed but for the staggering durability behind it. Twenty seasons at cornerback in Washington is almost unthinkable, especially for a player listed at just 175 cm. Plenty of athletes are fast; almost none stay elite for two decades. The 1996 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award tells me his character off the field matched his excellence on it, and his Hall of Fame induction was inevitable. I think of him as proof that consistency, discipline, and humility outlast raw talent. He is the kind of competitor whose example transcends his sport.

Name (English)

Darrell Green

Name (Japanese)

ダレル・グリーン

Reading

だれる・ぐりーん

Born

February 15, 1960 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Height

175 cm

Occupation

American football player / athletics competitor

University

Texas A&M University–Kingsville

Awards & achievements

• 1996 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award
• Pro Football Hall of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.darrellgreen.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell%20Green
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1166586

Tags

• Texas
• American football player
• athletics competitor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.