Derrick Green knows where he's going.
January 6th, 2013 at 9:49 AM ^
I used to blow smoke up my mothers ass too.
January 6th, 2013 at 9:29 PM ^
I'm not an Indian but i don't think that's the right way to send smoke signals.
January 5th, 2013 at 10:27 PM ^
Getting Green would be big for getting Reuben Foster since they are friends.
January 5th, 2013 at 10:38 PM ^
January 5th, 2013 at 10:53 PM ^
Don't you know that the national recruiting championship is the important thing, now?
January 6th, 2013 at 12:24 AM ^
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January 5th, 2013 at 11:01 PM ^
For the love of FARK is that thing red?
January 6th, 2013 at 6:44 AM ^
January 6th, 2013 at 8:38 AM ^
Nike trademarked maize...
January 6th, 2013 at 10:39 AM ^
Looks like somebody's been playing a lot of golf.
January 5th, 2013 at 10:37 PM ^
so he can milk the process for all it's worth.
January 6th, 2013 at 12:03 AM ^
January 5th, 2013 at 10:43 PM ^
BALTIMORE -- Two years ago, Derrick Green looked nothing like an invitee to The Opening. As a matter of fact, he didn't even look like a tailback.
Green, who now is 6-foot and 215 pounds, was once a 5-8, 268-pound offensive lineman. Suffice to say, Green, a running back from Richmond (Va.) Heritage who ranks as the nation's No. 83 player, worked hard secure his ticket to The Opening.
"I was always downhill," he said. "If you look at my film, I'm not really a bounce guy. I'm a one-cut-and-go, real straight, north-south runner and I have the speed to kick it up in sixth gear. All that bouncing and shaking, I wouldn't say that was me. If you're in the way, I'm going to blow you up. I'm not going to try to shake you.
"At my school, they call me 'The Freight Train.' I like that a lot. I'm going to run you over and let you know I'm here. I'm coming."
Green and his family said he has consistently run the 40-yard dash in the 4.3 area.
When Derrick read on a website that he didn't catch the ball well, father and son were outside working on pass-receiving for hours after work and school.
"He wanted to get better, so we had to take the time to get him better," Chris Green said. "The next camp he went to, they were saying he had hands good enough to play wide receiver. He accomplished that. He got over that hurdle."
Derrick led his family to better health, and he's also trying to inspire his teammates. He used to be the only player to run laps after practice. Now most of the team is joining him. When he gets his allowance, it's already spent. He buys food -- probably salad -- for the team on Wednesday evenings while they study game video. He takes his offensive linemen to Golden Corral if the team wins on Friday night.
Good article on Derrick. You can read it all here: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/792300…
January 5th, 2013 at 10:57 PM ^
"At my school, they call me 'The Freight Train.' I like that a lot. I'm going to run you over and let you know I'm here. I'm coming."
We like trains at Michigan stadium.
I think Green just got himself #32.
January 5th, 2013 at 11:08 PM ^
D Train?
January 5th, 2013 at 11:37 PM ^
January 6th, 2013 at 9:05 AM ^
January 6th, 2013 at 9:53 AM ^
January 6th, 2013 at 2:39 PM ^
De' Train
January 5th, 2013 at 10:58 PM ^
Wherever he ends up, he'll do well.
January 5th, 2013 at 11:02 PM ^
Is this website referenced by the Green family TTB? One could agrue that if he spent hours working on a perceived weaknesses in his offtime TTB is actually improving our recruiting classes.
http://touchthebanner.blogspot.com/2012/05/mini-scouting-report-derrick…
January 5th, 2013 at 11:05 PM ^
No, TTB's scouting report was two weeks after the ESPN article was published.
January 5th, 2013 at 11:15 PM ^
January 5th, 2013 at 11:20 PM ^
I was very interested once you posted that, because I thought it would be epic if so. I was bummed when I found out that was not the case!
January 5th, 2013 at 11:28 PM ^
Holy cow, dude was a sphere back then. To say he has gotten in shape would be the understatement of the year. What a turnaround to go from 5'8" 268 to the nation's #1 HS RB
January 5th, 2013 at 11:37 PM ^
Dang. Is he gonna get sanctions for paying high schoolers in meals?
January 5th, 2013 at 10:42 PM ^
He is not coming to Michigan because Hoke can't close...right? (sarcasm)
January 5th, 2013 at 10:51 PM ^
Seriously, just to put to rest some of the nonsense about that, part of me wants him to choose Michigan on Signing Day (HOKE CAN'T CLOSE LATE) by picking a Michigan hat instead of an Auburn hat (HOKE CAN'T WIN HEAD-TO-HEAD BATTLES) and then remind the country that running back is in fact a SKILL POSITION.
January 5th, 2013 at 11:01 PM ^
January 5th, 2013 at 11:28 PM ^
Won't you feel foolish once we flip Ammon Barker on monday.
January 6th, 2013 at 6:57 AM ^
when it's filled by a Freight Train.
January 5th, 2013 at 11:22 PM ^
January 5th, 2013 at 10:52 PM ^
Many sources said yesterday Michigan tops his list... Hopefully this is true.
January 5th, 2013 at 10:53 PM ^
I'll give that 3 fakes out of 5.
Rivals lists him as running a 4.4, while Scout lists one of his weaknesses as "breakaway speed", saying "not a conventional breakaway threat because of raw speed..."
January 5th, 2013 at 11:02 PM ^
Same people who said a state track and field champion, who ran slightly slower than a college Denard, was slow, after having run a different event shortly before.
January 5th, 2013 at 11:21 PM ^
I would give that 5 fakes out of 5, that is Denard speed... Green looks to me around a 4.5 guy, which is still fast for someone his size.
January 6th, 2013 at 1:48 AM ^
in the 2nd half of the army game, Green ran a toss sweep on a 4th and 2. I'll say this he looked plenty fast to me. Not that there is much difference between a 4.3 40 and a 4.4.
January 5th, 2013 at 11:02 PM ^
January 6th, 2013 at 1:29 AM ^
January 6th, 2013 at 4:55 AM ^
negged for #1 on RB
January 6th, 2013 at 11:18 AM ^
Negged for talking about MGoPoints.
(Someone please neg me).
January 6th, 2013 at 11:25 AM ^
You're welcome for doing that thing you requested.
January 5th, 2013 at 11:06 PM ^
do we have an estimated date for when he does announce said knowledge?
January 5th, 2013 at 11:10 PM ^
He has said that he will announce sometime in January. That's as specific as it gets.