Former Husker defensive striker Keem Green has found a new landing point and is familiar to him.
After going to the transfer portal after the 2020 season, Green is now going to South Carolina. It’s a big guy’s homecoming, since he’s from Sumter, SC
The high-hopes D-lineman was never fully eliminated in Nebraska’s rotation over two years in Lincoln. He played in five games last fall, ending with three tackles.
Nebraska discovered that its main gears were Ben Stille, who will return in 2021, along with Damion Daniels, Casey Rogers and Ty Robinson. Jordon Riley, despite suffering an injury during the first half of the 2020 season, is another who appeared to be one foot ahead of Green in the competition for game representatives.
Having been a highly regarded recruit, the 1.80 m tall, 320-pound Green signed to the Highland Huskers (Kan.) Community College in spring 2019 and arrived in Lincoln in 2019 in the middle of the fall camp. Trying to catch up, he made his debut with Husker in the loss to Ohio State in 2019, making a tackle, before also facing Wisconsin and Maryland. Not having played four games last season, Green managed to get a redshirt.
“In terms of understanding the manual, he has come a long way,” said Husker’s D-line coach Tony Tuioti before the 2020 season. “He can play in the end for us now. He can play in the nose for us. now. Last year, he failed to learn the nasal guard position. He can only learn one position. “
Having to work on his conditioning for most of the 2019 season, Green said he improved on winter conditioning to try to take over the task last year. Tuioti was hopeful that the D-lineman could become one of the key figures in the rotation.
“Not just sometimes, but all the time,” said Tuioti. “For our young people who are arriving now, our transfers to college, we need these guys to help us. But they have to do it our way, and they have to do it every time.”
Nebraska’s D line seemed to take a step forward, but Green did not prove to be a central figure in that group’s work last fall.
He will have two years to play for the program now led by Gamecocks’ first year coach Shane Beamer. The Huskers, for their part, received important news on Friday, when Stille said he would return for another year.
“He did a very good job of developing his body and developing his skills,” said Husker’s defensive coordinator, Erik Chinander, about Stille last December. “I really believe that his best football has been played in recent games and he will continue to improve. As I said, I hope that we can bring him back for another year, because I think he is about to have a great success here. “