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Kendrick Green Trolls Steelers after Smashing Former Team

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Pittsburgh Steelers center Kendrick Green during a preseason game against the Buffalo Bills, Aug. 19, 2023 -- Ed Thompson / Steelers Now

Kendrick Green got his revenge on the Steelers after they traded him on Sunday. And Green let it be known. In the lead-up to the game, Green expressed his feelings about finally being out of the building. He is happy to be where he is and is hoping to revive his career in Houston. So far, he is doing just fine on that task.

The Steelers drafted Green in the third round of the 2021 NFL Draft. Green played mostly guard at Illinois, but because he is slightly undersized for the position at the NFL level, the Steelers moved Green to center, where they had a vacancy after the retirement of Maurkice Pouncey.

The Steelers moved Green back to guard in 2022, but with the team much deeper there, he never saw the field. In 2023, they again tried him at center and even fullback before trading him to the Texans on Aug. 29 in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick.

“I’m glad it happened. I’m glad I’m not there anymore,” Green said to reporters in Houston on Friday, via Aaron Wilson of KRPC in Houston.

“I’m just looking at it as just another game, going out there to play my best. Just good that I’ll see some familiar faces on the other side. Got put in a pretty tough spot when I was there, and just think it’s fortunate the way it worked out.”

So, following his team’s shellacking of the Steelers, Green took to social media to lay the wood on his former team a little bit. Green even responded to 93.7 the Fan radio host Andrew Fillipponi, who said that the Steelers pass rush would have a field day against a patchwork Texans offensive line.

With Houston, Green has played exclusively his more-natural guard position. Green said in 2022 that he never wanted to learn center, and it’s clear the ordeal of being pushed into the center position in Pittsburgh is something that he is glad is behind him. He helped the rushing attack get going against the Steelers with the Texans’ best performance on the ground this season. Pittsburgh now has to regroup following the humiliation in Texas.

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