Though the folks at Yahoo! Sports have been doing their part of late to trumpet the comeback attempt of former NFL running back William Green, we’ve yet to hear anything positive about him from any of our various league contacts.

“I can’t think of anyone who would want him,” one experienced NFL talent evaluator told us on Tuesday night. 

“Why not?” we asked.  “Too old?  Turd?”

“All of the above,” the source said.  “And he wasn’t good when he played.”

Green was a first-round pick of the Browns in 2002, and he last played in 2005.  His career average is 3.7 yards per carry.

The B.C. product participated in the Tuesday Pro Day workout at Chestnut Hill.  Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports has the numbers, which are respectable but not spectacular.

And, as to Green’s times in the 40-yard dash, the performance was downright mediocre.  Per Robinson, Green ran between 4.65 and 4.68 seconds in two attempts.  Green supposedly “slipped” each time (maybe he’d just eaten popcorn . . . with his feet). 

Green nevertheless claims that he recently ran a pair of sub-4.4s in Arizona.  Maybe he being chased at the time by a woman wielding a knife. 

(By the way, Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports offered up this stunningly lame justification for the infamous cutlery incident on Monday:  “In 2003, while Green was serving his suspension and before they were married, Asia tried to ’scare’ him into paying attention by threatening him with a knife.  Green was cut in the incident, although both maintain some of the media’s accounts were overstated.”  Um, the media reports were that Green’s girlfriend cut him with a knife.  If Green’s girlfriend cut him with a knife, how were the reports overstated?)

As to Green’s current prospects, and as we’ve said as to other players in the past, 31 teams can say no.  It takes only one to say yes.  Green’s agent, Neil Schwartz, is optimistic that a “yes” will come.

“I spoke to a lot of teams that were interested in seeing him, and I think he validated that he’s ready to play football again,” Schwartz told Robinson.  “We’re just looking for the best opportunity for him right now.  We just want teams to know that he’s ready to play and that we’re not running from the past.  We recognize that because of the past that teams don’t want to take an economic risk, and we don’t expect that.  All we want is a chance.”

We respect anyone who is pursuing a dream, especially when the odds are stacked firmly against it.  But Green had his chance in the sun, and he fumbled it away.  With a bumper crop of young and healthy running backs from the college ranks poised to flood the NFL next month, it’s unlikely that Green will be wearing an NFL uniform in September.