Marvin Harrison Jr. has an unmatched work ethic to go with his supernatural talent. Before he heads to the NFL, he's looking to finish the job at Ohio State.
They began with the predawn workout sessions as a freshman, which often were bookended by return trips to the facility that led to Buckeyes coaches tossing him out after midnight.
The confluence of raw talent, unmatched mentorship and elite collegiate coaching isn't the reason Harrison Jr. is considered a generational NFL prospect, however. What has impressed throughout his three seasons in Columbus is the way he has maximized all the raw talent and inherent advantages of his father being one of the best receivers of all time.
That has all been honed by Harrison Sr. forcing his son to play against older kids growing up, orchestrating a high school transfer to a better program and steering him to be surrounded by the best wide receiver room in college football. Harrison faces the reality of perhaps the biggest challenge of his career on Saturday -- Penn State's No. 1-ranked pass defense -- when the No. 3 Buckeyes host the No. 7 Nittany Lions.As the cacophony of Ohio State's pro day unfolded around him, Harrison Sr. sat on a bench in the Ohio State football facility.
"I was like, 'Oh, all right, that's not cool," he said of the sing-song chants in pregame."I think I only played a half a game and had like 222 yards and four touchdowns. So, I don't think that's overrated." Day was also recruiting McCord, who was one of the first big commitments after he took over the head coaching job in December 2018. And that meant the two eventual high school teammates took recruiting trips there and developed a comfort level.
"It's a competitive development," Harrison Sr. said."He had skills when he got here. He knew the game before he got here. He's enhanced it and got better as you get older. But it's, 'Are you going to get here and get in the back of the f---ing line? Or are you going to go in the front of the line and say, 'I'm going to kick your ass.'
Harrison Jr. earned a small role as a freshman, broke out as arguably the country's top receiver last year with 77 catches for 1,263 yards and 14 touchdowns and likely would have been the first wide receiver picked in the NFL draft last year. "Our mouths were agape," Polian recalled in a phone interview this week."We'd never seen anyone with hands that fast. I certainly hadn't."
"You need to track the ball on the outside shoulder," Harrison Jr. said."You have to adjust the route not only to catch it, which is hard, but to catch it at a very specific spot." "What the fan wouldn't notice is that when he runs his routes, he can really sink his hips and get out of breaks and cut without losing speed," the scout said."It may look like he's blowing by someone, but corners can't read his hips and doesn't turn on the blink, as they say, to signal where he's going.
At some point this spring, a struggling NFL franchise is going to have a pre-draft workout with Harrison Jr. and likely come away with a similar impression Polian had of his father in 1996.
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