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#29 Broderick Green
Position: RB
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 248
Year: Sophomore
City/State: Little Rock, Ark.
High School: Pulaski Academy
Other College: Southern California
Experience: Transfer
Broderick Green
Courtesy: Athletic Media Relations
Release: 07/13/2010

OUTLOOK: A major contributor to a deep running back unit who pushed himself in the offseason and has the potential for a big season in 2010. He had eight carries for 53 yards for the Red team in the Red-White Spring Game. Green combined for 29 carries for 116 yards and two touchdowns in the other scrimmages throughout the spring combined.

2009: Green played in all 13 games with three starts (Eastern Michigan, South Carolina and Mississippi State). He led the Razorbacks in rushing with 104 carries for 442 yards and 11 rushing touchdowns. His 12 total touchdowns tied for the 17th highest total in the SEC, which his 11 rushing touchdowns ranked fifth in the league and his nine rushing touchdowns in home games led the SEC and were tied for 14th nationally. Green had the longest run by any player in the nation in 2009 with a 99-yard touchdown rush against Easter Michigan, which also brooke the Arkansas record for the longest run in school history and he became the second player in SEC history to take one 99 yards. He had seven touchdown runs in the last six games of the year and scored in eight of the 13 games on the season. He turned in three two-touchdown performances in 2009 (Auburn, Eastern Michigan and  South Carolina). He opened the season with a team-leading 10 carries for 30 yards against Missouri State, including a touchdown. He averaged 5.0 yards per carry at No. 3 Alabama. He ran the ball a then-career high 11 times against Texas A&M for 28 yards while also catching his first pass out of the backfield for an eight-yard touchdown. He had his first two-touchdown game against Auburn on runs of two and three yards. Green turned in a then-career best 40 rushing yards on 10 carries at No. 1 Florida and caught two passes for 23 yards  (and a rushing touchdown). He posted a career-best 134-yard effort against Eastern Michigan, which was the first 100-yard game of his career. In the contest, he averaged 14.9 yards on nine carries with a career-high tying two touchdowns. He ran the ball a career-high 13 times against South Carolina and tied his career best with two touchdowns. At No. 17 LSU, he had eight carries for 20 yards, including an eight-yard run for his 11th rushing touchdown of the year. He led the Razorbacks in rushing in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl victory with 11 carries for 50 yards.

BEFORE ARKANSAS: He transferred to Arkansas in the spring of 2009 after two seasons at Southern California. In 2008, he appeared in six games and carried the ball 32 times for 168 yards and three touchdowns. In 2007, Green redshirted as a freshman tailback at USC. He sprained his foot in 2007 fall camp and re-sprained it in the middle of the season, which limited him. His 2006 high school honors included Parade All-American, Super Prep All-American, Prep Star All-American, EA Sports All-American third team, Prep Star 100, Super Prep All-Southwest, Prep Star All-Southeast and Scout.com All-Southwest as a senior running back at Pulaski Academy. He ran for 2,000 yards and 23 touchdowns. As a junior in 2005, he made all-region, all-metro and all-conference while rushing for 1,664 yards on 196 carries (8.5 avg.) with 21 TDs and catching 45 passes for 563 yards (12.5 avg.) with five touchdowns. His high school coach was Kevin Kelley.

PERSONAL: Green was born on May 22, 1989 and is the son of Wilma Faye Nellums and the late Isaac Green. He is majoring in sociology. He is the brother of Kansas City Chiefs safety Greg Wesley.