ESPN: Arizona State CB Nyland Green a sleeper player in 2025

As Arizona State nears the start of the 2025 college football season, the Sun Devils’ cornerback room looks to be one of the strengths for the team headed into the season.

Arizona State will return several starters on defense, including starting corners Keith Abney II and Javan Robinson. ASU also added Purdue corners Nyland Green and Kyndrich Breedlove through the transfer portal.

ESPN’s Bill Connelly listed Green as a player to watch out for in 2025. Connelly has the 6-foot-2, 185-pound corner as a sleeper player for the Sun Devils, adding he has a better opportunity to thrive in under defensive coordinator Brian Ward.

The Arizona State defense returns eight starters, including both cornerbacks (Abney II and Robinson) — the Sun Devils are blessed with continuity on that side of the ball that most top-25 teams don’t have. But that makes cornerback Green one heck of a luxury add: The Purdue transfer, who started his career as a blue-chipper at Georgia, was an all-or-nothing playmaker with an overwhelmed Boilermakers defense last year, but in more select roles, with better experience and talent around him, he could turn into a major difference-maker for the defending Big 12 champs.

How does Green look for Arizona State headed into 2025?

Green, who was a five-star high school recruit in 2021, per 247 Sports, was an early transfer portal addition for the Sun Devils this offseason.

In seven games last season with the Boilermakers, Green recorded 23 tackles with five passes defensed and two sacks. Green spent three seasons playing sparingly for the Georgia Bulldogs from 2021-23 before transferring to Purdue in 2024.

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