The Greenway file
Age: 32 Height, weight: 6-2, 240
Position: Outside linebacker, entering 10th season
Hometown: Mount Vernon, S.D.
College: Iowa
With the Vikings: Drafted in the first round (17th overall) in 2006. Missed rookie season because of torn knee ligament but played in the next 115 consecutive games. Three-time Vikings defensive MVP; has led the team in tackles six times. Fourth in team history with 1,203 tackles in 124 games.
NFL honors: Two time Pro Bowl selection. Second-team All-Pro in 2012. Named Byron "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year in 2015 by the players association.
Family: Wife, Jennifer, ran track at Iowa. The Greenways have three daughters: Maddyn, Beckett and Blakely.
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