When Zack Belk was being recruited to play college football 12 years ago, his younger brother wanted to come along on the visits. It was on a trip to Knox College, a Division III school in Galesburg, Ill., that the head coach couldn’t believe the size of 10-year-old Kendrick Green, and told him right then and there they’d love to have him on the team someday.


He was only half-joking.


“I always tell people that was his first offer,” Belk said with a laugh Saturday afternoon. “They were recruiting me, but then they really wanted Kendrick.”


Somewhere, that coach was probably patting himself on the back Friday night when the Steelers chose Green out of Illinois — not Knox — to be their third-round draft pick. And maybe their next great center?..........

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