Since Ohio State junior Marvin Harrison Jr. began dominating rival secondaries last season, NFL teams have been drooling over him. This spring, at the 2024 NFL selection, they will finally get the chance to select him.
Although there is a tiny bit of optimism among Buckeyes supporters that Harrison will choose to stay at Ohio State and earn more money from his name, likeness, and image rather than declare for the NFL, former NFL player J.J. Watt rationally busted their bubble.
“Marvin Harrison Jr. will go Top 5 in the upcoming draft,” Watt wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday. “He’ll average ~$9M/yr over 4 years. $9M would be a gigantic NIL number. More importantly, if he stays, he’s one year further away from the massively lucrative 2nd contract. He’s earned the opportunity and he deserves it.”
Harrison will play in his final collegiate game on December 29 when Ohio State takes on Missouri in the Cotton Bowl; however, it is not yet known if he will choose to play. Harrison declared he is “undecided” about whether or not to participate in the bowl game.