Kenyon
Green.
Kenyon
Green.
Texas A&M· 6'4"· 323 lb· 5.24s 40
"A two-time consensus All-American who started 35 straight games and lined up at all four non-center spots as a junior: the most physical interior blocker in the class, with a junior year of tape that never settled."Pre-draft read
A dense, wide-framed interior blocker built to displace people. He plays from a broad base with a low center of gravity and real pop on contact, generating movement on down blocks and short-yardage doubles that most guards cannot. His hands are heavy, he finishes with intent, and once his feet are set there is very little bull rush that walks him backward.
The separator is versatility with power: Texas A&M started him at right tackle, right guard, left guard and left tackle in one season. He is at his best pulling and climbing in a gap/power run game, where his acceleration into contact does the work. In pass protection he is more grinder than technician, winning with grip strength and lower-body stability rather than quiet feet.
Gap/power run scheme that lets him down block, pull and finish rather than reach on the move
Year 1 starting guard in a downhill, two-back run offense; ceiling is a Pro Bowl-caliber people-mover if the pass-set technique catches up to the power
A wide-zone offense asking him to reach-block three-technique defenders on the backside and pass-protect on an island against quick, hand-fighting interior rushers
The tackle reps at Texas A&M were an emergency solution, not a projection; he is a guard in the NFL and any plan that keeps him outside wastes his best trait.
Texas A&M OL Kenyon Green Film Breakdown
Rep-by-rep look at his college power, hand usage and the position changes across the 2021 season.
Pick in review: Kenyon Green
Retrospective on the 15th overall selection and what the pre-draft evaluation got right and wrong.
Film Study: Kenyon Green Flashed MAJOR UPSIDE vs Bears
NFL tape study of his guard play in Houston, isolating the power flashes and the technical lapses.
Kenyon Green arrived at Texas A&M as a five-star recruit and started from his first college snap, opening at right guard as a true freshman and never giving the job back. He is a power-scheme interior blocker first — a mauler who wants to work down blocks, doubles and pulls, and whose value is in creating vertical movement rather than in reaching defenders on the perimeter.
The résumé is unusual for a guard: 35 games, 35 starts, SEC All-Freshman as a freshman, consensus All-American as a sophomore on the line that led the SEC in sacks allowed and yards per carry, and a Lombardi finalist as a junior. That junior season is also the flag. Playing four different positions and being moved week to week — right tackle against Kent State, left tackle for the upset of top-ranked Alabama, left guard at Missouri — cost him technical consistency, and the pass-protection reps on that 2021 tape are choppier than the 2020 film.
Boards were split between the résumé and the last year of tape. Some rooms had him as a top-12 lock on power, toughness and positional flexibility; others graded the 2021 film as a mid-first-round guard with hand placement and balance issues to clean up. Houston took him 15th overall, betting that a single position and a full offseason would settle the technique.
- 01
Displacement power
Heavy hands and a wide, low base let him generate real vertical movement on down blocks and short-yardage doubles against SEC interior linemen.
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Four-position versatility
Started at right tackle, right guard, left guard and left tackle in the same 2021 season and was named a season-long team captain.
- 03
Anchor strength
Once his feet are set, bull rushers rarely move him; his lower-body stability is the trait scouts trusted most against elite nose tackles.
- 04
Pull and climb athleticism
Moves well enough in space for a 323-pounder to lead on power and reach the second level in a gap-heavy run game.
- 05
Track record of availability
Started all 35 games he played across three seasons, including all 13 as a true freshman in the SEC.
- 01
Pass-set consistency
Footwork gets choppy against speed-to-power and counters; his 2021 tape shows more lost reps than the 2020 film at one position.
- 02
Hand placement
Punch lands wide or late often enough that defenders can work into his chest and turn his shoulders on the edge of the pocket.
- 03
Balance through contact
Plays with heavy weight forward and can be pulled off his feet by quick interior rushers who swipe and cross his face.
- 04
Position uncertainty
Playing four spots in one year left rooms guessing where he settles, and the tackle reps confirmed he is a guard in the NFL.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.24sp50
- Vertical
- 26inp50
- Broad jump
- 102inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- 5.12sp50
- Bench
- 20repp50
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Texas A&M | 13 |
| 2020 | Texas A&M | 10 |
| 2021 | Texas A&M | 12 |
| Career | — | 35 |
Games and starts verified against the official Texas A&M athletics player bio (13 starts in 2019, all 10 games at left guard in 2020 including center snaps in the Orange Bowl, all 12 games at four positions in 2021). No pancake or pressure-allowed splits were published for any season, so none are reported rather than estimated.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Decorated SEC guard drafted in the top 15 whose college power never translated into steady NFL pass protection.
The mauler outcome — a guard who dictates the line of scrimmage on every down and whose technique catches up to his power.
First-round lineman who loses a rookie year to a shoulder injury and never establishes one settled position.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Kenyon Green played one season for the Houston Texans, starting at guard. He missed his entire second season due to injury.
Houston plugged him in immediately at left guard as a rookie and it went badly: 15 games, 14 starts, a bottom-of-the-league blocking grade among qualifying guards, and a penalty count that tied for second-most in the NFL. The 2023 season disappeared entirely — a shoulder injury in the final preseason game sent him to injured reserve in August, and he was not activated until December. He came back as the starting left guard in 2024 and the results stayed uneven; Houston benched him mid-game against Indianapolis, restored him for the Jets game a week later, and then a dislocated shoulder against New York in Week 9 ended his season. He never started another game for the Texans.
Houston moved on in March 2025, sending him to Philadelphia with a pick for C.J. Gardner-Johnson. The Eagles cycled him through waivers, the practice squad and the active roster three separate times before releasing him in September, and he landed on Baltimore's practice squad at the end of the month. Twenty-seven games, twenty-three starts, and no season where he was clearly better than a replacement-level guard. In hindsight the 2021 tape was telling the truth: the physical tools were real, but the technical inconsistency that A&M's weekly position-shuffling masked as versatility was the actual scouting report, and a top-15 pick did not leave room for a multi-year technique project.
Data note: from Miami via Philadelphia