Professional football player Howard Green is a nose tackle for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League.  Green was originally selected 190th overall in the sixth round of the 2002 NFL Draft by the Houston Texans.  He made his debut that year with the Baltimore Ravens and went on to play with several other NFL teams in the years since.  Green joined the Packers in 2010 when he was claimed off of waivers from the New York Jets.http://www.packers.com/team/roster/Howard-Green/4c319c04-faa2-4128-8d3f-bae2e68d3214

After joining the Packers in 2010, he played in nine games during the season as the team finished the year with a 10-6 record.  Though he was scratched for their opening game in the 2010-11 NFL Playoffs, which was a win against the Philadelphia Eagles, Green returned to the lineup to help Green Bay top both the Atlanta Falcons and the Chicago Bears and reach Super Bowl XLV.http://www.nfl.com/players/howardgreen/gamelogs?id=GRE226240

Howard Green Jr. was born on January 12, 1979 in Donaldsonville, Louisiana.http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GreeHo20.htm  He attended Donaldsonville High School in Louisiana before beginning his college football career with the LSU Tigers football team in the NCAA.  At Louisiana State, Green played in 51 games, 12 of which he started at defensive tackle.http://www.packers.com/team/roster/Howard-Green/4c319c04-faa2-4128-8d3f-bae2e68d3214

After college, Green was drafted by the Houston Texans, but never played for that team and instead joined the Baltimore Ravens with which he made his professional football debut.  Between 2003 and 2004, Green played in 18 games with the New Orleans Saints and recorded 27 tackles and one pass deflection.  He left the NFL for two years, then returned in 2007 as a member of the Seattle Seahawks.http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GreeHo20.htm

Green spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons with Seattle, appearing in 18 games and recording a total of 28 tackles and a sack.  In 2009, Green went to the New York Jets, for which he played the 2009 season and the first two games of the 2010 campaign, with a brief off-season stop with the Washington Redskins.  With New York, Green tallied 24 tackles, including 17 which were solo.  He was waived by the Jets in October 2010 and picked up by the Green Bay Packers where he finished the 2010 season.http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GreeHo20.htm