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...more looks from the scouts, possibly extending my year. This year has been an unbelievable comeback.”The road will be long and has only recently become more tested. Despite the successes of former Crimson players, such as Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05 and Matt Birk ’98, the more frequent result of shooting for the pros ends in heartbreak. Even for all-time Ivy League rushing record-holder Clifton Dawson ’07, a brief stint proved to be all the spotlight the NFL would give him.Where those before them have failed...
...personnel.“Matt was excited as well, and happy to be in a camp. He’s kind of in the same boat as me.”All three players will look to the example set by Harvard’s current NFL pros, Matt Birk ’98 of the Minnesota Vikings, and Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00 and Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, both of the St. Louis Rams.“I’ve been trying to contact as many people as I can, get as many opinions...
...Only three former Crimson football players are currently on NFL rosters—Fitzpatrick, Kacyvenski, and all-pro center Matt Birk ’98 of the Minnesota Vikings—and they’ve all come within the last 13 years, the time in which Murphy has been at the helm of Harvard football...
...come together in St. Louis, at least for the rest of this year. And on New Year’s Eve, things will come together for all three of the Crimson’s pro footballers, when Fitzpatrick and Kacyvenski’s Rams travel to Minnesota to play Birk and the Vikings in both teams’ regular-season finale...
...course, those continued complaints will gloss over NFL rookie (and Harvard alum) Ryan Fitzpatrick, as well as perennial Pro-Bowl center Matt Birk, who graduated in 1998 and a staple on the Vikings’ offensive line the past few seasons...