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...similar charge, you’ll recall, was leveled at former Crimson great Isaiah Kacyvenski three years ago, and all he’s done is earn the starting middle linebacker job with the Seattle Seahawks. All-Pro center Matt Birk ’98 has squashed those stereotypes, too. Sooner or later, you’d think that coming out of Harvard—hotbed of overachievers that it is—might actually be considered a selling point. But Soriano says questions about his commitment to football keep coming up in interviews...
Whichever events Morris attends between now and the April 26 NFL Draft should help determine whether Morris can successfully follow Seattle Seahawk Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00 and Minnesota Viking Matt Birk ’98 from Soldier’s Field to the professional ranks...
...improved tremendously every year he’s been here,” Murphy said. “He and Jack were the best tandem in the Ivy League. Neither kid gave up a sack all season. We’ve had great offensive linemen in the past like Birk, but to have two kids who play at that level is great...
It’s not that Morris is the only good football player to come out of Cambridge. Matt Birk ’98 is a Pro-Bowl center for the Minnesota Vikings. Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00 is currently laid up in his home with a high ankle sprain, but the Seattle Seahawks hope he’ll heal quickly and regain the team’s starting middle linebacker spot. Junior Dante Balestracci, a bruising linebacker from New Bedford, Mass., and senior offensive lineman Jamil Soriano may be better NFL bets in the long...
...industry” has heard a lot from Harvard lately—Birk and Kacyvenski head a list of recent Crimson NFL signees that approaches double digits. In the decade before Murphy’s arrival in 1994, not one Harvard player had signed...