Marvin Harrison Jr. will be the top wide receiver taken in the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft, and it sounds like his former Ohio State Buckeyes teammates fully expected this to happen even very early in his college career.
During a recent interview with the New York Post, New York Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson had some high praise for Marvin Harrison Jr., who he played with during his final season at Ohio State. Wilson explained that Harrison’s work ethic stands out.
“The best way I can describe Marvin is he’s a grinder,” Wilson said to the New York Post. “He’s always going to be the best player on the field, but in a rare case that he wasn’t, he would be grinding the whole day after to make sure that was never the case again. That’s my favorite thing about him.”
Wilson revealed that Harrison has been a sort of physical freak since the moment he stepped foot on Ohio State’s campus, telling a story of the first time he saw him do a 225-pound bench press.
“He did 18 reps at 225 [pounds] on like his second day of being in the facility,” Wilson said. “I had done my test two years earlier, and they actually had to change the bar to 185 for me. It was a big discrepancy, like, ‘Oh wow, this dude is not joking around.’ It tells you a lot about his work ethic. That’s not something you just have. You build that.”
We’ll have to see where Harrison is ultimately selected and how he performs at the NFL level.
