Ashton Green joined the Alabama State University football staff after two years at fellow Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) school, Prairie View A&M, and will be beginning his second year where he is responsible for the offensive line for the Hornets.
Last season at Alabama State, Green helped coach one of the youngest offensive lines in the country. At one time, the Hornets had four redshirt freshman along the front playing college football for the first time. He helped redshirt freshman Travon Taylor earn BOXTOROW All-American honors, while also helped the team rush for 905 yards and pass for 1,011 during the season, while finshing second in the East Division.
In his last season at Prairie View A&M, Danny Garza was named First Team All-SWAC in helping to lead the offensive line for the Panthers who averaged 35.6 points per game. He was part of the unit that helped Prairie View A&M rush for over 2,300 yards as a team including 1,000-yard rusher Dawonya Tucker.
In his first season at Prairie View A&M, both left tackle DeJohn Jones and left guard Christian Rice earned First Team All-SWAC honors. The duo helped produce 500-plus yard games of total offense four times, including a pair of games of 600-plus yards. The offensive line also helped produce a school-record 815-yard game at UAPB.
Green spent two years as a graduate assistant at Louisiana Tech before joining Prairie View A&M, helping the Bulldogs to a win in the inaugural Frisco Bowl in 2017. Prior to Louisiana Tech, he spent two seasons as the offensive line coach at Lincoln (Mo.) University.
Green, who won a pair of SWAC championships as a student-athlete at Grambling State, began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater in 2013.
