The quotes in this story come from Trey’Dez Green’s interview with Matt Moscona on After Further Review
Louisiana is home for Trey’Dez Green. So is LSU.
After setting the LSU single-season touchdown record at the tight end position in 2025, Green could have cultivated a bidding war on the open market in the transfer portal. With a new coach and offensive staff coming in, that would have made sense to many.
Not Green.
“I didn’t commit to LSU for a coach,” Green said. “I committed to LSU because it’s home…I’ve witnessed it. I’ve been in middle school walking down the streets at an LSU game before anybody even knew who I was and people stopping me, calling me over there to try gator…It’s just the hospitality, and I was like man I want to play here, and I want to be one of the greats that walk these halls at LSU, this legendary place.”
Physically, Green is already great. He’s also very early in his football life. Growing up north of Baton Rouge, Green was a basketball star at an early age. It wasn’t until his last two years of high school that he picked up football.
At 6-foot-7, he went from average size on the basketball floor to a major mismatch on the gridiron. Now he’s got one of college football’s best offensive minds directing the Tiger attack.
“I love Coach Kiffin. From the day that I met him, everything that he’s told me, it has happened,” Green said. “Everything that he said, that has happened. I’ve been getting the ball. He’s been moving me around and putting me in different positions. He’s been making everything fun.”
Green feasted on opposing defenses with the fade a season ago. It started in the Clemson game when he set up LSU’s first touchdown with a pass interference call. He scored the second. That was enough to earn the win.
The Tiger offense motioned him out for one-on-one coverage and threw jump balls to the freakishly athletic Green. This year, he wants to be more multi-dimensional.
“My focus this year is to start to understand the defensive side of the ball, to understand the different coverages and the different pressures that they bring, the different leverages that they play,” Green said. “And just working with the offensive line to get my technique just right in the run game.”
While individually Green shined in 2025, the Tiger offense scuffled. The team dropped five games. The staff was turned over. Asked about his personal goals, Green deferred to the team.
“We want to bring that that national championship back to Baton Rouge,” Green said. “We know what that would do for the city of Baton Rouge, just the whole state of Louisiana. The culture is just so different. It’s different when you’re from that state. And I saw what it was like when they were winning in 2019. I saw the feeling that everybody had, and I saw everybody’s face. I just want to bring that culture and that winning feeling back to Louisiana.”
