Rising up the son of Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer Marvin Harrison has made life fascinating for Arizona Cardinals rookie first-round choose Marvin Harrison Jr. as he tries to blaze his personal path to the NFL.
And whereas the 22-year-old wideout is used to individuals evaluating him to his father, there’s one other participant he’s beginning to get paralleled with — Cardinals nice Larry Fitzgerald.
Throughout a latest interview with SiriusXM Radio, Harrison Jr. defined how he feels being juxtaposed with somebody of Fitzgerald’s caliber.
“You have to suppose that I have been in comparison with a Corridor of Famer my entire life,” Harrison Jr. mentioned. “Going into this case shouldn’t be a lot totally different at this level. I am simply going to embrace it. There’s by no means going to be one other Larry. Larry was nice. I am simply making an attempt to be the subsequent me.”
Fitzgerald will go down as one of many NFL’s all-time greats. He ended his profession second to only Jerry Rice in all-time receptions (1,432) and receiving yards (17,492) whereas logging the sixth-most touchdowns catches (121) in NFL historical past.
Harrison Sr. wasn’t too shabby both, ending fifth, ninth and fifth, respectively, in those self same classes.
A Biletnikoff Award winner (prime WR in school soccer) and a two-time unanimous All-American, Harrison Jr. left a reasonably good legacy for himself at Ohio State. Although he has some huge sneakers to fill within the NFL, the No. 4 general choose of the draft isn’t fearful about residing as much as sure expectations.
“I simply really feel like I am purported to be right here, that is what I am purported to do,” Harrison Jr. mentioned. “I am residing out my dream, so I am by no means making an attempt to place an excessive amount of stress on myself. Clearly, I am tremendous exhausting on myself on the sphere, I simply need to be the very best that I could be, however I simply really feel like I am purported to be right here, in order that’s my mindset the entire time.”
