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.
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.
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.
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.
Career Arc
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Brian Kelly.
2025 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Elite: rec tds (98th). Strength: yards / catch (84th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
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.
Game log
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 17-10@ Clemson | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 1 | 9 | 2 TD catches |
| Wk 7 | W 20-10vs South Carolina | 8 | 119 | 14.9 | 1 | 24 | Season-high 119 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 24-31@ Vanderbilt | 5 | 74 | 14.8 | 1 | 24 | |
| Wk 9 | L 25-49vs Texas A&M | 6 | 54 | 9.0 | 1 | 28 | |
| Wk 12 | W 23-22vs Arkansas | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 13 | W 13-10vs Western Kentucky | 6 | 45 | 7.5 | 1 | 19 | |
| Wk 14 | L 13-17@ Oklahoma | 1 | 30 | 30.0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Bowl | L 35-38@ Houston | 4 | 80 | 20.0 | 2 | 42 | |
| Total | 33 | 433 | 14.8 | 7 | 42 |
How he plays
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Elite: rec tds (98th). Strength: yards / catch (84th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
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.
2026 Outlook
Returning to LSU for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · LSU
Returning around him
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 #10
Perception vs tape
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.
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.
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.
DNA match
Player DNA
Lined up out wide as often as inline. Creates mismatches downfield.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jamal Turner’s 2022 season.
Jamal Turner
Anthony Torres
Luke Lachey
Lance Mason
Josh Whyle
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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).
Jake Briningstool
Josh Whyle
Jordan Smith
Miles Kitselman
Luke Lachey
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Peer comparator
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Development
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2024–2025Up 329% from first season to most-recent.