LSU’s offense may have plenty of new faces around it, but the biggest mismatch in the group could still be the one who never left.
Trey’Dez Green, a returning junior tight end listed at 6-foot-7 and 237 pounds, is coming off a breakout 2025 season that put him on the second team All-Southeastern Conference. He caught 33 passes for 433 yards and a team-best seven touchdowns, and the way LSU’s offense looks heading into 2026, he has a real chance to become quarterback Sam Leavitt’s top target.
That’s a big statement in a room that Lane Kiffin stocked with nine receivers through the portal last January. But Green isn’t a normal tight end.
He can win above the rim, stretch defenders like a wideout and create the kind of problems that force defenses to change how they line up. He was especially dangerous after the catch last season, with 176 of his 433 receiving yards coming once the ball was already in his hands.
Green’s production has already rewritten LSU’s tight end record book. He owns the school career mark for receiving touchdowns by a tight end with 11, and he set the single-season record at the position with seven in 2025. In his first two seasons with the Tigers, he has played in 24 games with eight starts, producing 46 catches for 534 yards and 11 touchdowns.
The sophomore year was the one that made him impossible to ignore. He appeared in 11 games with six starts, ranked third on the team in receptions and receiving yards, and caught a touchdown in six different games.
His biggest night came against South Carolina, when he was named the John Mackey Award National Tight End of the Week after posting career highs with eight catches for 119 yards and a score in the LSU win. That performance kicked off a three-game run in which he totaled 19 receptions for 247 yards and three touchdowns.
He also came through in big moments. Green opened the season with two catches for 17 yards and a touchdown in LSU’s road win over Top 10 Clemson, hauled in six passes for 45 yards and a score against Western Kentucky, and finished with four receptions for 80 yards and two touchdowns in the Texas Bowl against Houston. That bowl game was also where he kept moving LSU’s record books forward, first tying and then breaking the tight end touchdown marks previously held by Richard Dickson, Robert Royal and Brad Boyd.
His freshman season hinted at what was coming. Green played in all 13 games and made two starts, with his best outing arriving in the Texas Bowl win over Baylor, where he set career highs with six catches, 53 yards and two touchdowns. He also caught his first college pass for a 1-yard touchdown in his Tiger Stadium debut against Nicholls.
The talent has never been in question. Green arrived from Zachary High School as a four-star prospect, the top prep player in Louisiana for the Class of 2024, and the On3 composite ranked him as the nation’s No. 1 tight end and No. 35 overall.
He was a two-sport standout who also shined in basketball, and as a junior in 2022 he put up 45 catches for 864 yards and 11 touchdowns on the football field while averaging 27 points and 11 rebounds on the court. He finished his senior season with 53 receptions for 960 yards and 12 touchdowns.
That basketball background still shows up in the way he plays. Green spent time with the LSU basketball team in January and February of 2025, made his debut on Jan. 25 at Alabama, and scored his first college basketball points after blocking a shot on the perimeter and racing down the court for a dunk in the first half against the Crimson Tide.
Now he heads into his junior season with a résumé that already stands out and an offense built to feed him even more. For LSU, that’s not just a luxury. It might be the whole edge.
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