Texas Football: Former Horns CB Jalen Green lands with Mississippi St
One of the bigger names to wind up in the NCAA Transfer Portal out of the Texas football program this offseason, in the post Tom Herman-era on the Forty Acres, arrived earlier in the week. Junior cornerback and the former highly coveted four-star recruit Jalen Green put his name in the transfer portal just a few days back.
And it didn’t take Green too long to find his next landing spot out of the transfer portal. He wound up with a former Big 12 head coach (from his time with the Texas Tech Red Raiders) in Mike Leach and the Mississippi State Bulldogs on the afternoon of Jan. 23. He announced on his Twitter timeline the transfer news, following by a raucous reaction from the Mississippi State fan base.
Green will take his talents to Starkville to now play against SEC competition. It was likely the change of the coaching regime, and his third defensive coordinator since he first arrived on the Forty Acres prior to the 2018 campaign, that caused Green to transfer in the first place.
— Jay Green (@jaygreen__) January 23, 2021
What the Bulldogs are getting out of this latest transfer addition Green is an experienced, gifted, and lengthy cornerback, that was often up and down in his play on the field in the last three years. In his three years playing for Texas, Green registered 47 career combined tackles, three tackles for loss, no sacks, one interception, and seven pass breakups.
What he did for Texas football in 2020
During the 2020 campaign individually, Green registered 14 combined tackles, one tackle for loss, one interception, and two pass breakups, in nine games played.
His last game was in the Longhorns Alamo Bowl win back on Dec. 29 over the Colorado Buffaloes, which came by the final score of 55-23.
Mississippi State is also getting what was an integral piece of the Longhorns 2018 recruiting class. Coming out of Heights High School in Houston TX, Green ranked as the nation’s No. 47 2018 high school prospect, No. 6 cornerback, and No. 4 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 ranked him as the nation’s No. 17 high school prospect, No. 3 cornerback, and the top overall prospect out of Texas.
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