Greene easily was the team’s best signing in free agency, and they nabbed him in the first year of it, 1993. Statement from Steelers President Art Rooney II on the passing of Kevin Greene: /QkbM6gYyIk They played with the same kind of passion from their left outside linebacker spot, both on the strong side where the quarterback can see them coming. Watt, the All-Pro outside linebacker for the Steelers who is a candidate for NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Greene’s intensity burned red-hot for 15 years in the NFL. He played for the 49ers for one season before returning to Carolina for the final two years of his career. He left Pittsburgh in 1996 and signed with the Panthers, where he led the league with 14.5 sacks.
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He earned five Pro Bowls and three first-team All-Pros, as well as Team of the Decade for the 1990s. Love that man.ĭuring his three seasons with the Steelers, they reached the playoffs each time, including two AFC Championship Games and Super Bowl XXX in which they lost to the Cowboys. Condolences to Tara and the entire Greene family. His passion for football and life exuded in everything he did. He was a HOF player and even better person. But when I got to Pittsburgh, it really elevated my play.” The first eight years with the Rams I think I was a good player, a decent player. “I think they really started me on a tear the next seven years in the NFL. “It was the perfect time in the football universe to be there in Pittsburgh,” Greene told me this year. Greene led the NFL in sacks in 1994, and though he played just three of his 15 NFL seasons in Pittsburgh, he left such an impression that the Steelers regard him as one of their true Hall of Fame players, and inducted him into their own Hall of Honor. “It was like a race between them who could get to the quarterback first,” recalled Tom Donahoe, then Pittsburgh’s director of football operations. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016. He led the league twice in sacks, once at age 34 when he also earned NFL Defensive Player of the Year. His 160 sacks are third most in NFL history, more than any other linebacker. Greene was a pure, passionate pass rusher, one of the greatest the game has seen.
You wouldn’t ask Babe Ruth to move the runner over, either. He used to brag about his versatility, how he would drop into pass coverage during the Blitzburgh days, but they did not have him do that often. Rest in peace to linebacker Kevin Greene. He even quit coaching in the NFL for a time so he could help coach his son, Gavin, who plays, like his dad, as an edge rusher at Mississippi College.Ī big personality with an even bigger heart. He made it to captain in the National Guard and completed training to become a paratrooper. He made it as a walk-on at Auburn University and became the Tigers’ defensive player of the year. With his flowing blond hair, he looked like Hulk Hogan and, in fact, dabbled in pro wrestling for a short while. It was pure Kevin, the most passionate football player I ever covered.
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