Stephiylan Green

Emerging interior defender who enters 2025 credited with 17 tackles (2.5 for loss), one sack and a pass breakup in 319 defensive snaps over 14 career games in his true freshman and redshirt freshman seasons. 2024:Second-team Freshman All-American selection by The Athletic during his redshirt freshman campaign … credited with 17 tackles (2.5 for loss), one sack and a pass breakup in 306 defensive snaps over 12 games … recorded two tackles vs. No. 1 Georgia … contributed three tackles (two for loss) including his first career sack vs. Appalachian State … added a tackle vs. NC State … posted two tackles and a pass breakup vs. Stanford … made one tackle vs. Louisville … added two tackles (0.5 for loss) at Virginia Tech … recorded two tackles at Pitt … credited with two tackles vs. The Citadel … added two tackles vs. No. 8 SMU. 2023: Played 13 defensive snaps over two games while redshirting … ACC Honor Roll selection … made collegiate debut vs. Charleston Southern … saw action vs. Florida Atlantic. Before Clemson:Helped Rome to 12-2 record in 2022 when the team reached the Georgia state semifinals … part of a squad that finished ranked 16th in the state by MaxPreps … had strong senior season with 68 tackles, 25 of which were tackles behind the line of scrimmage … contributed 10 sacks and two interceptions and a 32-yard interception return touchdown in 2022… played defensive tackle and defensive end … all-state honoree as a junior and senior … named all-region his final three years … had 43 tackles, including nine tackles for loss and a sack, and two pass breakups as a sophomore in 2020 … played for John Reid … rated as a consensus top-225 player nationally in his recruiting class … listed by On3 as the No. 46 overall player in the nation and fourth-best player in Georgia … ranked No. 174 overall by 247Sports … ranked No. 100 overall by Rivals … ESPN.com ranked him as the nation’s No. 228 player … nation’s No. 293 player per PrepStar, which ranked him as a four-star prospect. Personal: Committed to Clemson on June 22, 2022 … born Feb. 23, 2005 … enrolled at Clemson in January 2023 … sports communication major … first name pronounced “STEPH-eye-linn.” Note: Tackle stats in the written bio above reflect statistics from coaches film review. Tackle stats in the automated Stats tab of this page reflect those as awarded by gameday stat crews.

*Courtesy Clemson Media Guide