 Greene in 2024 | |
| West Virginia Mountaineers–No. 6 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Class |  |
| Major | Sport Management |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | October 1, 2001 |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 201 lb (91 kg) |
| Career history | |
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| High school | Chiles (Leon County, Florida) |
Garrett Greene (born October 1, 2001) is an American football quarterback for the West Virginia Mountaineers.
Greene attended Chiles High School, where he passed for 2,917 yards and 25 touchdowns and rushed for 2,660 yards and 31 touchdowns. [2] He committed to play college football at West Virginia University over other schools such as Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and TCU. [3]
As a freshman in 2020, Greene completed three of four passes for 24 yards and rushed six times for 40 yards. [4] In the 2021 season opener, he threw for 57 yards and rushed for 98 yards and two touchdowns in a 66-0 win over LIU. [5] Greene finished the 2021 season completing 16 of 26 passes for 147 yards, while also rushing for 297 yards and four touchdowns on 48 carries. [4] In week 11, Greene replaced starter JT Daniels, who was benched in the first quarter, and completed 12 of 22 passes for 138 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing for 119 yards and two touchdowns in a 23-20 win over Oklahoma. [6] [7] The next week, West Virginia announced that he would get his first career start. [8] In his first start Greene completed 15 of 27 passes for 204 yards and three touchdowns with two interceptions, while also rushing for a touchdown, in a 48-31 loss to Kansas State. [9] [10] He finished the 2022 season completing 43 of 78 passing attempts for 493 yards and five touchdowns to three interceptions, and rushing for 276 yards and five touchdowns, while also hauling in four receptions for 32 yards. [4] In week 2 of the 2023 season, he completed ten passes for 240 yards and four touchdowns in a win over Duquesne. [11]
| Season | Games | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Record | Comp | Att | Pct | Yards | Avg | TD | Int | Rate | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | ||
| West Virginia Mountaineers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 0–0 | 3 | 4 | 75.0 | 24 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 125.4 | 6 | 40 | 6.7 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 11 | 0 | 0–0 | 16 | 26 | 61.5 | 147 | 5.7 | 0 | 0 | 109.0 | 47 | 306 | 6.5 | 4 | |
| 2022 | 9 | 2 | 1–1 | 43 | 78 | 55.1 | 493 | 6.3 | 5 | 3 | 121.7 | 45 | 276 | 6.1 | 5 | |
| 2023 | 12 | 12 | 8–4 | 147 | 277 | 53.1 | 2,406 | 8.7 | 16 | 4 | 142.2 | 120 | 772 | 6.4 | 13 | |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 | 4–7 | 189 | 315 | 60.0 | 2,300 | 7.3 | 15 | 12 | 132.8 | 134 | 734 | 5.5 | 6 | |
| Career [4] | 45 | 25 | 13–12 | 398 | 700 | 56.9 | 5,370 | 7.7 | 36 | 19 | 132.8 | 352 | 2,128 | 6.0 | 28 | |
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