Tech A-back and UGA transfer J.J. Green has a fitting job this week
The one player who has been on the roster of both Georgia and Georgia Tech is spending this week in a fitting role. Tech A-back and Georgia transfer J.J. Green is serving as a member of the offensive scout team, helping portray the Georgia offense for the Yellow Jackets defense.
Green transferred to Tech from Georgia last winter after two seasons with the Bulldogs. A running back and defensive back at Georgia, Green made the unusual switch on the basis that the Tech offense was a better fit for him. At 5-foot-9 and 187 pounds, Green fits in the ranage for an A-back and less so the mold for a tailback at Georgia, where he played defensive back as a sophomore. He is sitting out this season and will have two seasons remaining starting in 2016.
“He’s done a good job at the tailback position all year long being whoever he needs to be,” defensive coordinator Ted Roof said Tuesday after practice.
Coach Paul Johnson mentioned Green as one of a handful of promising A-backs who did not play this season who will be ready to challenge for playing time in spring practice and next fall.
A transfer across the Tech-Georgia divde is rare, though not unprecedented. The most prominent is John Dewberry, who transferred to Tech from Georgia and quarterbacked the Yellow Jackets to wins over the Bulldogs in 1984 and 1985.
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Ken Sugiura is a sports columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Formerly the Georgia Tech beat reporter, Sugiura started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.
