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...yeah, the Harvard season. In the midst of all the murmurs about what will happen come draft day, Fitzpatrick hasn’t forgotten the team he’s playing with every Saturday. Taking the advice of former Crimson players Carl Morris ’03 and Jamil Soriano ’03—both of whom have toiled on practice squads and in the NFL Europe—Fitzpatrick has endeavored to keep the future distinct from the present. The agents get deferred to his father, while the subject of the NFL has been off-limits between...
...That’s one of the main things I’ve appreciated about him through the year was, he really kept those two things separate,” Fitzpatrick says of his coach. “During the year, our main focus is winning the football games, but I’m sure after the Yale game we’ll sit down, him, me and my family, and we’ll go over some of the prospects...
...definitely hurts,” Fitzpatrick says of his Ivy origins. “I think we’ve seen that in the past, at least since I’ve been here we’ve had a couple pro prospects that just for some reason or another—they’ve done great in the Ivy League, and come draft day, they just don’t get the respect that maybe some of them deserve...
...appearance in the senior bowls, then, would provide Fitzpatrick with the opportunity to make people look past the brands of “Harvard,” “Ivy League?...
It’s strange to think that the remarkable things Fitzpatrick has done while he’s been a member of the Crimson are largely unknown to the new sets of eyes that have come to watch him, and that will be watching him over the next few months. Since Harvard is primarily televised on local cable—if at all—many of Fitzpatrick’s legendary performances get replays only in the memories of his teammates, his unfortunate opponents and the fans who wear his No. 14 jersey...