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Kelvin Green

Kelvin Green enters his ninth season and his third season as assistant head coach on the Delta State University football staff. Green was promoted to Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator in January of 2019 and also coaches the linebackers.

In his first season as defensive coordinator in 2019, the Statesmen defense led the GSC total defense (309.2 ypg./29th NCAA), rush defense (122.0 ypg./36th NCAA) and sacks per game (2.70) while also ranking second in red zone defense (.714/38th NCAA).

Green’s defense had five All-GSC performers, two All-Americans and five Gulf South Conference Players of the Week in 2019. Junior Faulk, Vada King earned First-Team All-GSC while Eric Sadler and Marvin Terry earned second team honors. Falk was named a finalist for the C-Spire Conerly Trophy, which is given each year to the top collegiate player in Mississippi, and also nabbed All-American and Academic All-GSC honors. In the classroom, thirteen defensive players were named to the 2019 Gulf South Conference Academic Honor Roll with a 3.0 GPA or higher. Overall team GPA was a 3.1 and the defensive GPA was a 3.0.

In 2018 season, defensive lineman Tramond Lofton ranked third in sacks (6.0) and fourth in tackles for loss (10.0) in the GSC while Ovenson Cledanord finished fourth in sacks (4.5) and fifth in tackles for loss (9.5). Lofton and fellow defensive lineman Eric Sadler were also named to the All-GSC Second-Team. 

In 2017, the Statesmen led the Gulf South Conference in rushing defense, sacks and tackles for loss. The 45 sacks were sixth in NCAA Division II, with Green’s charges accounting for 22. The Statesmen also ranked 14th in NCAA Division II in tackles for loss (110), with the defensive line accounting for 46.
 
Green also coached Brandon Gaddy, who was named Second Team All-GSC and First Team All-Region.

Green came to the Delta from Columbia High School out of Atlanta, Ga. where he served as the offensive line coach from 2009-2012 and defensive coordinator from 2010-2011. Columbia recorded their first winning season in years and first playoff berth in 10 seasons while Green served as defensive coordinator.

The Statesmen defensive front has seen increased production since Green took over in 2013. DSU finished ranked first in the Gulf South Conference in run and ranked second in sacks. First-Team All-GSC selection, Diego Lubin, finished third in sacks and second in tackles for loss in the GSC while Second-Team All-GSC selection, Adrian Dinkins, ranked sixth in the conference in tackles for loss and 12th in sacks.
 
In 2014, the Statesmen finished sixth nationally in sacks (39), 24 tallied by the defensive line, and led the nation in tackles for loss (119), 46.5 notched by the defensive front. Randall Boyd was named First-Team All-GSC and All-South Region. Green was also responsible for recruiting Richard Nash, a First-Team and Second-Team All-South Region selection, and Romelo Wilson, who also earned Second-Team All-GSC and All-South Region honors.
 
The 2015 defense led the GSC in tackles for loss (119), ninth nationally, and finished second in the GSC in sacks (33).  The defensive line was responsible for 46 tackles for loss and 16.5 sacks.
 
Under Green’s guidance in 2016, the Statesmen defensive line amassed 19 of the defense’s 23 sacks and 46 of the team’s 83 tackles for loss.
 
Green has also headed up the Delta State linemen camp since 2013 and has been involved with several top notch camps including Auburn University (2012), Clemson’s Dabo Swinney Football Camp (2011, 2009), and Alabaman’s Nick Saban Football Camp (2011, 2012). 

Green is a member the American Football Coaches Association, the Mississippi Association of Coaches and the Georgia Athletics Coaches Association.

Green lettered one year at Georgia Military College in 2004-2005 before transferring to Clemson University to complete his degree in 2007. Green graduated from Clemson with a Bachelor’s in Park, recreation and tourism management in 2009 and received and Associate's degree in applied science in 2006.

The Atlanta native is married to the former Dominique Neville and are the parents of two daughters, Laila and Maya.