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Morris and his roommates will gather in his Dunster suite tomorrow and Sunday to follow the National Football League’s (NFL) college draft on TV along with millions of other football fans. While dozens of so-called “experts” have published dozens of predictions on what round and to what team the Harvard wide receiver and two-time Ivy Player of the Year will be selected, the truth is Morris could end up in any one of the NFL’s 31 cities...
...don’t really expect a certain position [in the draft],” Morris says. “All the people that get paid to predict this…nobody’s going to be right. I’m just waiting for it to be over...
There is a very short payoff in the draft for the amount of work a player puts in. While Morris’ name will only light up the television screen for a few seconds, he has been preparing for the moment since the second after the Harvard-Yale game ended last November...
Morris spent nearly all of February training in Atlanta until the combine, e-mailing assignments in to his professors. Finally, he headed to Indianapolis late in the month for the scouting circus that is the combine. Many draft experts consider the four-day event a crucial barometer in determining how high in the draft a player gets selected...
...People were more surprised than anything else,” Soriano says. “It has been since at least the 1950s that there were two or more Harvard players going into the draft...