The 2023 GHSA Football Season is right around the corner and preseason accolades are dropping in the coming days with the AJC Super 11 and prestigious Super Six selections that the Gwinnett Daily Post does ahead of each specific sport. On Tuesday, the first name on the Super Six Football selections was released and it went to University of Georgia-commit Justin Greene, who is the first-ever Mountain View Bear to receive the honor.
Greene and the coaching staff at Mountain View have worked to develop the future Bulldog into one of the top defensive linemen in the country and his 6-foot-5, 260-pound frame is the result of this hard work. His defensive line coach at Mountain View is Mario Lane, who runs the 3TA training group.
He has gone from a 200-pound freshman starter to a 215-pound athlete following his breakout sophomore season to a solid 260 pounds and still has room for more size.
“I was 200 pounds freshman year and I’ve just been working, putting work in the weight room, eating and now I’m here,” Greene told the Gwinnett Daily Post. “I think people underestimate, especially at my position, how much the weight helps. Once you get bigger, it becomes way easier to use your techniques and do your job on the line. … I had to work (to gain the weight). After I got to like 220, 230, it kind of got way easier. I just had to get past that initial hump I guess.”
Greene is a scheme-versatile lineman that draws double teams and he can disrupt opponents at an elite capacity as evidenced by the six blocked kicks he registered last season. He racked up 63 total tackles last season along with four sacks and helped Mountain View reach the playoffs out of a stacked Region 8-7A with Buford, Collins Hill, Mill Creek, Central Gwinnett and Dacula.
“He’s phenomenal,” said Mountain View head coach John Poitevint to the GDP. “He started as a freshman for me my first year here and he’s the same kid then as he is now. He played offensive tackle when I got there, we moved him to defensive end and told him if you work hard, you have put on weight, get bigger and stronger, you can play at a high level. It’s something he had to work really, really hard at. … Coaches want the total guy — great on the field, off the field, in the classroom — and he’s really that.
Greene is the highest-rated prospect in Mountain View history and the Bears enter the 2023 season with confidence to shake up the Class 7A landscape. The next five names on the Super Six will be released later this week.
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