In fact, chlorophyll absorbs mostly blue and some orange light. One thing we have learned about nature is that it does not waste anything. Although chlorophyll only absorbs blue and orange light, other pigments in the leaves absorb the other colors. Some of those other pigments are called carotenoids. They absorb green light and reflect orange.
Carrots have a lot of carotenoids.
During the summer, there is so much chlorophyll in the leaves we simply cannot see the other pigments. But as the daylight shortens, the tree does not make as much chlorophyll. Where I live it is the aspens and poplars that turn bright yellow. The red and oranges are mostly seen in the sugar maples. Maples turn red because when the leaf-dropping process begins in these trees, some of the sugar that the leaves made remains trapped in the leaves.