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Renardo Green Explains How He Fits the 49ers Defense

"It's a hungry, aggressive, attacking defense, and I feel like I have those traits to do whatever I can do to help the team out."

Grant Cohn

Redshirt sophomore running back Renardo Green (8) warms up. Florida State football defeated Georgia
Redshirt sophomore running back Renardo Green (8) warms up. Florida State football defeated Georgia / Jack Williams/Tallahassee Democrat / USA
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SANTA CLARA -- 49ers rookie cornerback Renardo Green spoke to the media on Thursday. Here's what he said.

Q: Do you have a sense of how your style of play will fit with this defense and what you bring to the table?

GREEN: "It's a hungry, aggressive, attacking defense, and I feel like I have those traits to do whatever I can do to help the team out."

Q: What's the playbook like, assuming you've gotten to look at some of it? Did it jump out as something that's complicated or something that's alright?

GREEN: "It's not too complicated."

Q: Have you watched much of Charvarius Ward and Deommodore Lenoir?

GREEN: "Yes. I've seen those guys play. They're good corners. I actually had a teammate, Jarrian Jones, he's always talking about Ward because they're both from Mississippi. I see he had a real good year this past season. I'm ready to pick their brain and learn as much as I can from them."

Q: Rookie seventh-round pick Tatum Bethune had a ton of nice things to say about you. What can you say about him?

GREEN: "He's a leader. He's a hardworking guy. He's smart. He's very humble. At the same time, he's confident. He's a positive guy even when things can go left, he always looks at things in a positive light."

Q: He seems like a big hitter, too.

GREEN: "He's a tone-setter. If the defense needs a spark, he's going to smash somebody. He brings energy to the defense and he brings an old-school smash-mouth mentality to the defense."

Q: How excited are you to get back on the field with this team?

GREEN: "Everybody should be excited to start playing football again. No longer running 40s or doing broad jumps or verts. It's time to put the pads on and make some plays. I'm very excited for that."

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GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.