[1] He attended Magnolia High School, and participated on the football, basketball and track teams every year.

As a football star, he played split end and defensive back, while also returning punts and kickoffs.

Green played on the state Class AA football championship team his senior year in 1974.

[3] Green played college football at Henderson State University, in the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) from 1975-78; and served as a team captain in 1978.

[8] Early in the 1985 season, New York Giant's Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells[22] said of Green,"’There is nobody in the National Football League who can cover him one-on-one .... 'It's suicide to try.

He's got a good grasp of what's going on in the secondary, but the big thing is that he has rare athletic ability and great determination.'''

[24] On August 20, 1991, he was cut from the team when the Browns reduced their roster to sixty and elected to keep rookie Michael Jackson and Reggie Langhorne instead.

[25] Green was subsequently signed by the Philadelphia Eagles in September of 1991,[26] who sought veteran leadership at wide receiver to replace the retired Mike Quick[27] and the waived Cris Carter.

[32][33] In an early season game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, after being with the team for only four days, Green caught six passes for 114 yards.

[42] Since retiring from the NFL, Green has shifted his focus to helping improve the health of current and former professional athletes through promoting sleep apnea awareness across the country.

He has teamed up with dental icon, David Gergen, and a company called Pro Player Health Alliance to hold free public awareness events in local communities all over the nation.

[43][38] In 2012, Green was diagnosed with kidney disease due to the long-term use of anti-inflammatories during his playing career in the NFL.

Following a year of dialysis three days a week, his daughters, Miyosha, 30, and Candace, 26, both offered to donate a kidney to their father.

[44][45][37] He was one of eight named plaintiffs in a class action suit against the league alleging reckless distribution of narcotic painkillers that went on for nearly a decade.