Marvin Harrison Jr. Joins Rarefied Air In Ohio State’s 45-12 Win Over Arkansas State

Sophomore extensive receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. caught a career-high seven passes for 184 yards and three touchdowns to guide Ohio State to a 45-12 win over Arkansas State on Saturday afternoon.

“He’s very mature for his age,” head coach Ryan Day stated after the sport. “To see any individual that’s performed as a lot as he has with simply the excessive degree of route-running is fairly exceptional … The potential is there. You may see the couple performs he made, he did it a bunch of various methods.”

Harrison scored the Buckeyes’ first landing of the sport on a 42-yarder from redshirt sophomore quarterback C.J. Stroud, shedding his defender throughout the center of the sphere after which racing previous one other on his strategy to the top zone.

The duo then connected on one other 42-yarder with 4:24 remaining within the second quarter, which put Ohio State State forward 24-9, as Harrison streaked down the correct sideline and Stroud lofted the ball into the top zone.

Harrison’s third landing of the sport was his most spectacular, as he leaped over two defenders to haul in a 30-yarder that capped the scoring for the afternoon. He practically had one other landing earlier within the sport, as nicely, however the ball was punched out of his palms as he crossed the purpose line and dominated incomplete.

“Marvin was an enormous a part of getting us going and definitely has the massive play functionality,” Day stated. “While you’re enjoying towards a group that actually desires to load the field and stress you on the line of scrimmage, you’ve received to win on the surface, and he did that for us at the moment.”

With juniors Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Julian Fleming sidelined by harm, Harrison was thrust right into a extra distinguished function on Saturday. However after they return to motion within the coming weeks, his rising chemistry with Stroud will solely make the offense tougher to defend.

“Daily in observe, he simply exhibits how nice of an athlete he’s,” Stroud stated. “He’s the most effective route-runners I’ve ever performed with, and at the moment was simply his day to do it … It positively exhibits all people – and even ourselves – the depth that we now have as soon as these guys do come again.”

Coupled along with his three-touchdown efficiency in final season’s 48-45 win over Utah within the Rose Bowl, Harrison is now the second participant in class historical past to catch three landing passes in a number of video games. He joins former extensive receiver Joey Galloway, who had three scores in a 28-21 win over Michigan State in 1993 and a 48-14 win over Purdue in 1994.

“It means quite a bit,” Harrison stated. “There have been loads of nice receivers to come back by way of right here, so to be talked about with Joey Galloway is certainly an enormous honor … I simply should preserve working. It’s not the top, and hopefully I’ll have extra three landing video games.”

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