Marcus Harris (wide receiver, born 1974)
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Position: | St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Weight: | 213 lb (97 kg) |
Career information | |
High school: | Brooklyn Center (Brooklyn Center, Minnesota) |
College: | Wyoming |
NFL draft: | 1997 / Round: 7 / Pick: 232 |
Career history | |
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Career NFL statistics | |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Marcus Harris (born October 11, 1974) is an American former college football player who was a wide receiver for the Wyoming Cowboys. He was a two-time All-American, including a consensus selection in 1996, when he also won the Fred Biletnikoff Award as the season’s outstanding college football receiver.
Early life
Harris was born in 1974.[1] He attended Brooklyn Center High School in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where he was a star running back for the Brooklyn Center Centaurs high school football team.
College career
Harris received an
receptions, 4,518 receiving yards, and 38 touchdown catches. Harris was inducted into the Wyoming Athletics Hall of Fame on September 24, 2004. [2]
Statistics
Source:[3]
NCAA Collegiate Career statistics
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Wyoming Cowboys
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Season | Receiving | Rushing | Punt Returns | |||||||||||
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Rec | Yards | Avg | Yds/G | TD | Att | Yards | TD | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | |||
1993 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 | ||
1994 | 71 | 1,431 | 20.2 | 119.3 | 11 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 | ||
1995 | 78 | 1,423 | 18.2 | 129.4 | 14 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 | ||
1996 | 109 | 1,650 | 15.1 | 137.5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 187 | 9.4 | 0 | ||
NCAA Career Totals | 259 | 4,518 | 17.4 | 98.2 | 38 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 20 | 187 | 9.4 | 0 |
Professional career
Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle |
Three-cone drill | Vertical jump |
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6 ft 1+3⁄8 in (1.86 m) |
213 lb (97 kg) |
32+3⁄4 in (0.83 m) |
9+7⁄8 in (0.25 m) |
4.68 s | 1.62 s | 2.72 s | 4.09 s | 7.42 s | 34.0 in (0.86 m) |
He was drafted by the
1997 NFL Draft.[4] He is the only Biletnikoff Award winner to never play in a National Football League
(NFL) regular season game and Harris never played professional football in any league.
He currently is head coach for the football team, assistant coach for boys basketball team and head coach of the girls softball team at the Breck School.
See also
References
- ^ "Marcus Harris". nfl.com. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ Wyoming Athletics Hall of Fame entry Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Marcus Harris". www.sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ "1997 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-03-29.