Garrett Greett de Virginie-Western manages an exercise during the Big 12 NFL Pro day in Frisco, Texas. (Photo ap)
Morgantown, W.VA. – We are all dreamers.
This is part of the human mind, the place where the fire in us burns the hottest.
The dream may be a ball player or a movie star, an astronaut or a nurse. We dream of wealth, whether monetary or spiritual.
Garrett Greene has always dreamed.
It was an athletic family and his dream manifested in this. This brought him during his childhood years to Tallahassee, Florida, and led him to the University of Virginia-Western, where he defeated the chances and became a quarter-Arrière leaving in a large university program.
He heard the cheers accompanying these goals, launching winning -touch passes, doing exciting races.
He gave himself to achieve these objectives and the acclamations will remain with him the rest of his life.
However, you pay a price for these cheers. You pay a physical price, because he was undersized as a quarterrier, more runner than the launcher, and for each blow, there is pain or bruise and badges of courage acceptable to live his dream.
He heard, of course, hoots too. Not all passes are over. Not all races are a touchdown. Not all matches are a victory.
In November of last year, this university dream ended, but it was not ready to abandon a more important dream, that of becoming an NFL player. He knew that the gaming standards in the NFL did not include 5 feet 10 inches. They asked you to throw better than he could throw.
Thus, at the end of his days in WVU, he recalculated his dream, took stock of his assets and headed for a trip to do so in the NFL. His end -of -career tweet told the fork on his way to the future he would take.
“Playing the quarter-back in Virginia-Western was an incredible honor that I will cherish for the rest of my life. I would like to thank coach Brown, all the staff members with whom I worked and my teammates who made my five years in Morgantown so memorable. Having sang the campaign roads for the last time as a reception, I would like to announce the chapter of the 2025 career as a large reception. Game that I like at the highest level.
He died hard and even if he was transmitted in the draft, he recently signed a free agent agreement with the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay, who will give him the opportunity to continue his dreams this spring and this summer.
He understands that he is a longhot. He realizes that the 5,370 yards by the pass and 36 TD passes which he launched does nothing to assimilate his new dream and that the fact that he caught four passes for 32 yards on games of barely drool.
But the story tells us that this can be done, this passage from the quarter of the high school or from the college to the receiver of the NFL and no one will give him any more to realize himself.
Perhaps the two largest quarter-backs with a double threat in the history of the WVU were considered to be quarters by the NFL-Major Harris and Patrick White.
Harris was Lamar Jackson before his time. He almost won a national championship in WVU, but when he left for the NFL, he was not drafted before the 11th round with Oakland taking him as a defensive back. He was the right player, bad weather, almost 40 years ago, and he never played a game in the NFL.
White's skills were obvious, but NFL scouts did not consider it as a full-time quarter. Bill Parcels in Miami used the 44th overall selection in the second round of the 2009 project on White with the idea of ​​using it as a “wild” quarter to take advantage of his skills in the course of execution.
But the brain concresses cut White's efforts to settle.
This has happened successfully in the NFL, however. The League offers a number of examples of such events.
The first example is a type of player strangely similar in Julian Edelman, but probably not as physically good as Greene. The two have 5-10 and the two have speed, Greene having run 4.50 at Big 12 Pro Day and the veteran Edelman having had a 4.52 listed as his 40 times.
Edelman was a quarter of the secondary school in Woodside, California, and had no offer of scholarships. He decided to play at San Mateo college and broke many records as a quarter of Run, moving to Kent State on the stock market where he started for three years in an offense that was fully built on his skills at QB.
New England drafted him in the seventh round of the 2009 recovery with the 232nd overall choice, but he deceived them all. His career lasted 12 seasons in which he won three Super Bowls, demanding the Hunors of the Super Bowl MVP in the Super Bowl Liii while raising two or more seasons, also having years of 98 and 92 receptions, and has experienced three years of reception of 1000 yards, in particular by leading the league on yards in 2019.
There are many examples, many of which pointing to the Great Hines Ward of the old Steelers. Now Ward was a quarter of secondary school in the county of Clayton, Georgia, before going to the State University where he was mainly a receiver.
However, in the 1995 Peach Bowl, with the quarter-Arrière leaving Mike Bobo, the Bulldogs used Ward in the quarter-Arrière and he managed a Tavon Austin (which went to run against Oklahoma and set a school record for precipitation). Ward recorded 459 yards in total in the quarter against Virginia that day.
A choice of third round of the Steelers in 1998, Ward won two Super Bowls during a 14 -year -old career and had one of the biggest catches in the history of the Super Bowl.
The Steelers also succeeded in the wide receiver with Antwaan Randle-El, another undersized player who played for four seasons as a quarter of the Indiana, flowing and launching for 86 courses in career and finishing sixth in the Heisman Trophy's vote.
Like Ward, who was known for taking the Super Bowl, Randle -El took the ball on a large inverted receiver which was actually a thing of stuff in the Super Bowl XL, launching a shot of 43 yards at – Yeah, you got it, Hines Ward. The game opened the game and gave the Steelers their fifth Super Bowl.
It is also the only time in the history of the Super Bowl that a wide receiver launched a pass of a touchdown.
You may remember the name Arante Edwards, who was in the quarter-Arrière when Appalachian State succeeded in his superb 34-32 upheaval of the powerful Michigan in 2007.
He ended up being drafted in the third round of this project as a wide receiver and he would end up revealing how difficult it is to make such a transition that Greene tries to make.
“Everything I thought about football comes out from the window because I look at it from a different perspective now,” Edwards said at the time. “I have to learn to get off the jam. I have to learn to execute a road several different ways. And I run without football. The only time I ran in quarter, it was if I had the ball in my hand or if I jog after getting a first try.”
So there is work for Greene to do, but you know he will do it.
If he fails, it will not be for a lack of effort.
