Ahman Green has gone public with a diagnosis that has been weighing on him for more than a year.
The Nebraska football great said Wednesday on the “Go Long” podcast with Tyler Dunne that he has early-onset Parkinson’s. Green said the signs were there before the diagnosis came down, and he eventually went through testing after deciding it was time to find out exactly what was behind the symptoms he’d been noticing.
“Last year, I got diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's,” the former Nebraska and NFL running back told Dunne. “I had a little bit of the feet twitching when I'm in my sleep and stuff like that.
I knew something was going on long before that. I just got a hold of some doctors that I was able to get in contact with.
Get the diagnostics, get the testing. And finally got it tested last - it was January of 2025.”
Green said he kept the diagnosis private at first so he could tell the people closest to him before speaking publicly. He said his kids and family heard it first, then friends, and only later did he talk about it on the podcast.
“ I didn't share it for a long time because I wanted to let my kids know, my family,” Green continued. … “I let them all know first before I told friends, family, somebody like yourself.”
He also said the symptoms may have started much earlier than the diagnosis itself. Green said his wife had noticed him twitching in his sleep since shortly after he retired from football in 2009. More recently, he said he has dealt with short-term memory loss, and that the sleep twitching has included walking and talking in his sleep.
Even with the diagnosis, Green said he’s staying active and focused on his health. He said he continues to work out and eat healthy, and he’s trying to keep an optimistic mindset while also pushing awareness around the disease and the possibility of prevention. He also pointed to the potential connection between Parkinson’s and repeated head trauma from years of playing football.
“It needs to be up front,” Green told Dunne. “It needs to be a topic that's always hit.
And it's not the end all. To me, I have a jump ahead of it.
Just like anybody discovering that they have some type of cancer in their body, I'm ahead of it right now.”
Green remains one of the defining players in Nebraska history. He helped the Huskers win national titles in 1995 and 1997 and rushed for 3,880 yards on 574 carries in three seasons. He averaged 6.76 yards per carry, scored 42 touchdowns and posted 19 100-yard rushing games.
After leaving Nebraska early for the draft, Green was picked by the Seattle Seahawks. His biggest NFL impact came with the Packers, where he earned five Pro Bowl selections from 2000 through 2004 and one All-Pro nod over eight seasons in Green Bay. He finished as the Packers’ all-time leading rusher with 8,322 yards and ended his career with 9,205 rushing yards, 378 receptions, 2,883 receiving yards and 74 total touchdowns from scrimmage across his time with the Packers, Seahawks and Texans.
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