University of South Alabama Athletics

Jaguar Highlights: Provides depth in the defensive secondary and can contribute on special teams coverage units ... Selected the program’s most improved individual academically at the end of spring practice ... Posted a solo stop for the Blue squad in USA’s annual spring contest ... Collected four tackles, including three solo, and broke up a pass in the opening scrimmage of the spring.

As A Junior (2014): Played in eight contests including each of the last five ... Made an assisted stop in Troy victory.

Junior College Highlights (2012-13): A three-star recruit according to 247Sports.com, which had him rated 10th among all junior-college safeties ... Ranked fourth on the squad with 41 total tackles as a sophomore at Mississippi Gulf Coast CC, earning first-team all-state accolades ... Credited with a season-best 10 stops in seven-point victory over Hinds (Miss.) CC ... Collected eight stops in each of the Bulldogs’ first two games of the year, wins over Coahoma (Miss.) CC and Holmes (Miss.) CC ... Posted five stops in victory over Copiah-Lincoln (Miss.) CC as well ... Helped MGCCC end up ninth in the final National Junior College Athletic Association rankings with an 8-2 overall mark after falling to eventual national champion East Mississippi CC in the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges playoffs ... His first year with the program finished with 42 tackles, two interceptions and a pair of additional passes broken up ... Recorded a season-high eight stops — also intercepting one pass and breaking up another — in win over Hinds CC, matching that total the following week against Jones County (Miss.) JC ... Posted five tackles in back-to-back victories over CLCC and East Central (Miss.) CC, with an interception against the latter ... Collected four solo tackles in win over Northwest Mississippi CC in the MACJC playoff semifinals ... Had four stops and recovered a fumble in shutout win over Pearl River (Miss.) CC ... Bulldogs concluded the year sixth in the final NJCAA poll, going 9-2 overall.

High School Highlights: A four-year letterwinner in football, basketball and track at Northwest Rankin High ... Finished with 175 tackles, four interceptions and 12 passes broken up during his career ... Helped the Cougars advance to the second round of the state playoffs each of his final two seasons ... Set the school record in the triple jump with a leap of 46½ feet.

Personal: Full name is Nigel T. Green ... Born Aug. 6, 1994, in Bessemer, Ala. ... Son of William and Antoinette Green ... Is the youngest of four children ... Favorite movie is “Friday Night Lights” ... Favorite teams are the Miami Dolphins and Miami Heat ... Favorite athletes are Ed Reed and Dwyane Wade ... Favorite musical artists are Gucci Mane, Drake and Migos ... Likes Chinese food and ribs ... Favorite subject is psychology ... Enjoys track, basketball, music and photography in his free time ... Would like to own a business ... Also had an offer from Louisiana-Lafayette, and was recruited by Auburn and South Florida as well out of junior college ... Recruited by Mississippi, Mississippi State, Nebraska, Southern Mississippi and Louisiana-Lafayette out of high school ... An interdisciplinary studies major.