Kevin Darwin Greene was a linebacker and defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, and San Francisco 49ers. Greene played college football for the Auburn Tigers. He was a three-time All-Pro during his NFL playing career and was twice the league leader in sacks. Greene was later an outside linebackers coach for the Green Bay Packers from 2009 through 2013 and the New York Jets from 2017 through 2018. In 2016, Greene was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Kevin Darwin Greene was a linebacker and defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, and San Francisco 49ers. Greene played college football for the Auburn Tigers. He was a three-time All-Pro during his NFL playing career and was twice the league leader in sacks. Greene was later an outside linebackers coach for the Green Bay Packers from 2009 through 2013 and the New York Jets from 2017 through 2018. In 2016, Greene was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016. He is also a member of the NFL’s All-Decade Team for the 1990s. Greene’s father was a colonel in the army, making Greene an army brat. Greene grew up in Granite City, Illinois, and graduated from high school in 1980. He also completed ROTC while at Auburn and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Alabama Army National Guard. The Birmingham Stallions selected Greene in the 1985 U.S. Football League Territorial Draft. In 1988, Greene led the Rams with 16 1⁄2 sacks which was second overall in the NFL behind Reggie White. His first sack came in 1985, in a playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys, and it was in a defensive end role that the sack came. In 1991, the Rams changed defenses and defensive coordinators. Jeff Fisher became the new defensive coordinator and switched the Rams to a 4–3 defense, a system Greene was unfamiliar with after playing in a 3–4 defense since 1983. Although he had 46 sacks during three seasons, he was moved from left outside linebacker to defensive end in a 4-3 scheme the previous year.
In 1992, Chuck Knox hired Greene as head coach of the Rams’ coaching staff. He ended the year with only 3 sacks, his lowest total by far since his rookie season. The next year, he moved to left linebacker and then to left defensive end due to injuries. He had 69 career tackles as an outside linebacker and 11 sacks his senior year where he led the Southeastern Conference and won the Defensive Player of the Year Award in 1984. Greene earned a degree in criminal justice at Auburn. He earned the rank of captain and completed airborne training at Fort Benning to become a paratrooper. In 1998, he graduated from the RC-1-86 Armor Officer Basic Course at Fort Knox. In 2000, he joined the New England Patriots coaching staff as an assistant defensive coordinator. In 2002, he became the defensive coordinator of the Patriots. In 2004, he took over the defensive line coaching duties for the Patriots after the departure of Chuck Noll. In 2007, he coached the defensive backs at the University of Tennessee. In 2008, he helped the Tennessee Titans win the Super Bowl for the first time in their history. In 2009, he served as the head defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Volunteers. In 2010, he left the Patriots to take the head coaching job at the New Orleans Saints. In 2011, he returned to the Packers as the outside linebacker coach.
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