Trey'Dez Green
Trey'Dez Green is 6-7, a former basketball player, and PFF's No. 1 returning tight end in the country. He led LSU in touchdown catches because in the red zone, there's nobody to cover him. He's just getting started.
Buzz vs Tape
There's real chatter about him this season — just not enough of his own fan discourse yet to measure it against anything.
The story
Green's 2025 was a red-zone clinic -- 33 catches for 433 yards and a team-leading seven touchdowns, the production of a 6-7 former two-sport athlete who simply out-sizes and out-jumps defensive backs near the goal line. PFF ranks him the No. 1 returning tight end in college football, and he's a foundational piece of LSU's new-look offense. The forward stakes are the leap from mismatch specialist to every-down star: the catch radius and the scoring are already elite, so 2026 is about expanding the route tree and the volume into a Mackey Award profile. For an offense looking for a security blanket and a touchdown-maker, Green is both.
Career Arc
2025 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
Splits & context
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lane Kiffin
Career stats
Signature game
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025
W 17–10
at Clemson
2 rec · 17 yds · 1 TD
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 on the road.
How he plays
Play style
Green is a size-and-catch-radius weapon, and the data screams red zone: a 97th-percentile touchdown rate and an 89th-percentile EPA per target, the numbers of a tight end defenses can't match up with inside the 20. At 6-7, he's a high-point, box-out, throw-it-up-and-let-him-go-get-it target, with a reliable (79th-percentile) catch rate that says the hands are real, not just the frame. The yards-per-catch is more ordinary (52nd percentile) -- he's a possession and scoring mismatch more than a seam-stretching burner right now. The growth edge is exactly that: rounding out the route running and the after-the-catch game to become the every-down centerpiece his physical tools promise.
Our classifier reads him the same way: creates mismatches lined up all over the formation.
2026 Outlook
LSU
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · LSU
Returning around him
- 66% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 7 LSU players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: +0 net (41 in / 41 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
LSU · Last season: 7-6 (AP #20) · Talent rank #6 · 2026 recruiting class #11
Perception vs tape
Green's 2025 was a red-zone clinic -- 33 catches for 433 yards and a team-leading seven touchdowns, the production of a 6-7 former two-sport athlete who simply out-sizes and out-jumps defensive backs near the goal line. PFF ranks him the No.
Read the story →DNA match
Player DNA
Move TE
Lined up out wide as often as inline. Creates mismatches downfield.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jamal Turner’s 2022 season.
Matches Jamal on
Differs from Jamal on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Jake Briningstool's sophomore season at Clemson (2022).
Matches Jake on
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Heisman trajectory
Heisman Trajectory · 2025
Peak #234
Peaked at #234 this season.
Development
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2024–2025+329%
Up 329% from first season to most-recent.