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USA Today: Hillcrest High's Dorial Green-Beckham is Player of the Year

December 22, 2011|by Chris Replogle, KY3 News | creplogle@ky3.com

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Dorial Green-Beckham has received another USA Today all-America honor.

The senior from Hillcrest High School earned the newspaper's Offensive Player of the Year award for his record-breaking season.  He becomes only the fifth high school player in USA Today hisotry selected as all-America in back-to-back years.

The 6-foot-6, 225-pound receiver caught 119 passes for a state-record 2,233 yards and 24 touchdowns.  He ended his career with a national high school record of 6,356 receiving yards.

Green-Beckham remains mostly mum on his college choice.  He narrowed the list to five; Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Alabama and Texas.

Green-Beckham will play in the U.S. Army All-America game on Jan. 7 in San Antonio.  National Signing Day is Feb. 7.

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