Adriel Jeremiah Green is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals fourth overall in the 2011 NFL Draft, where he spent ten seasons before joining the Cardinals.
In his first season with the Bengals, Green made the 2012 Pro Bowl becoming the first rookie receiver to make a Pro Bowl appearance in eight years and went on to accumulate a total of seven Pro Bowl appearances throughout his career. From 2011 to 2013, Green caught more passes (260) than any other player in NFL history during their first three seasons, a record that was later broken by Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. (288).
Where did A. J. Green go to high school?
Green is the son of Woodrow and Dora Green; Woodrow was a steelworker and truck driver and Dora, was a clerk at a Walmart. Green attended Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina, where he was a three-sport athlete in football, basketball, and track.
He played as a wide receiver for the Summerville Green Wave football team, under coach John McKissick. He was widely considered to be one of the top national football prospects of the Class of 2008 and was listed as #1 by Sports Illustrated.
