Darrell Green is a former professional football player. Coming out of high school as an all-state football star and track runner, Green played college football and ran track at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M-Kingsville).

Green was an NFL cornerback for the Washington Redskins from 1983 to 2002. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest cornerbacks to have ever played in the NFL. The self-proclaimed "itty bitty guy," Green was nicknamed the "Ageless Wonder" by his peers and the general media for his remarkable ability to maintain a high level of play well into the twilight of his career. Green  was one of the fastest players in the history of the NFL. In the 1987 NFC Championship game, on a pivotal fourth-down play at the Washington goal line with 56 seconds remaining, Green knocked away a pass intended for Minnesota's receiver to secure a Redskins 17–10 victory that enabled the team to go to Super Bowl XXII. In the last game of his career, he returned a punt on a reverse from Champ Bailey for 35 yards which is the longest gain of any kind for a player that age (42 years, 327 days).

Green was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2008. On August 22, 2016, Green announced that he had accepted a position as an associate athletics director and special assistant to the athletic director at George Mason University.