Oregon Ducks' Marcus Harper on NFL Draft

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00:00Again, another scenario, me just kind of doubling down and again when no one was looking for Marcus

00:05Harper II to be a contributing factor, Marcus Harper II took it by the horns and I'm just

00:11always just preach that I'm always let whoever I talk to like always bet on yourself because no

00:16one else is going to believe in you if you don't believe in yourself. And getting on the field,

00:20man, it wasn't easy, but man, I felt like I learned a lot from the guys that were ahead of me

00:28and I just got comfortable being uncomfortable. I got so used to being in uncomfortable situations,

00:36it became the norm that when I'm not there, it's like, what are we even doing? The last three

00:41years of my career, my football career have been nothing short of phenomenal. It's been a mixture

00:48of emotions. It's been fun, it's been tough, it's been rough. It had me question, just questioning

00:55myself. In 2020, those singers leave and it's my show and I'm in spring ball and I partially

01:06tear my left tricep and for me, I would say that's one of the first big injuries that I've ever had

01:13in my football career. But again, they always get your toughest battles to your strongest soldiers

01:22and just the fact that I was able to even come back and play the 23 season, healthy,

01:31not really miss a beat. And again, that's just two years, no sex at the time.

01:38And I had this time a year ago, I thought about leaving for the NFL, but I just felt like I had

01:43a lot more on the table left to give and so I decided to come back. It wasn't an easy decision

01:49to thought about leaving. There are a lot of just mixture of emotions because you always wonder

01:55like there's this goal of like, there's this goal of like the NFL and no one tells you the path to

02:05get there. And you kind of just got to just kind of just again, lean back on your faith and just

02:11kind of like, you know what, just keep going. So that's what I did. I came back one more year

02:15and I honestly will say that's the best. This has been the best year of my life

02:20wholeheartedly, not just from a football standpoint, but from like a personal standpoint.