When the Pittsburgh Steelers spent a third-round pick on Kendrick Green in the 2021 NFL Draft, the intention was for Green to be Pittsburgh’s center of the future. After Maurkice Pouncey’s retirement, Pittsburgh needed another stalwart at center and they viewed Green as that guy.
Green struggled when he started as a rookie, and it turns out, he just wasn’t a fan of playing center at all.
“I can be a lot better at guard. To be honest, I didn’t like playing center,” he said via a tweet from Ray Fittipaldo.
In the NFL, it doesn’t really matter how much you like playing one position versus another.