Proud of the kid, particularly in light of that recent post about 70,000 college football players at all levels and just .5% of them making opening week NFL rosters in 2014, and 99.5% of college football players go on to other careers. Well, Marcus Hardison is entering a career as a D-lineman on one of the deepest D-lineman teams in the NFL
Marcus is the first Tarpon to make an opening week NFL roster since Burton Lawless exactly 40 years ago (he was the only rookie started in the Super Bowl).
This means the frequency of football players from Punta Gorda making it to the NFL is about the same as the frequency of the eye of a Category 4 Hurricane passing over and destroying the place (Donna and Charley).
Marcus is the first Tarpon to make an opening week NFL roster since Burton Lawless exactly 40 years ago (he was the only rookie started in the Super Bowl).
This means the frequency of football players from Punta Gorda making it to the NFL is about the same as the frequency of the eye of a Category 4 Hurricane passing over and destroying the place (Donna and Charley).
