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The sons of NFL legends for illustration Jerry Rice and Marvin Harrison are preparing to perceive their names called successful Thursday's draught successful a twelvemonth that looks group to beryllium a family affair.
Harrison's son, Marvin Harrison Jr., is nan biggest sanction of nan erstwhile pros' kin, and is expected to beryllium taken wrong nan first 5 picks aft a stellar assemblage profession astatine Ohio State.
The wide receiver topped 1,200 yards and caught 14 touchdowns successful each of his sophomore and inferior seasons for nan Buckeyes, and credited his 2016 Hall of Fame inductee dada for mounting 'pure perfection' arsenic nan modular to execute from a very young age.
'The activity ethic decidedly comes from him,' Harrison said. 'To ever push myself to beryllium nan champion subordinate that I tin be.'
Harrison Jr. has not hired an agent, and according to nan New York Post, his begetter has helped him navigate his pre-draft visits.
Marvin Harrison Jr. is considered nan apical receiver successful nan draught aft a stellar assemblage career
Harrison Jr.'s father, Marvin Sr., was inducted into nan Hall of Fame aft starring for nan Colts
Later successful nan first round, Notre Dame violative tackle Joe Alt - nan boy of erstwhile Chiefs violative lineman John Alt - is besides expected to perceive his sanction called.
Michigan protect lineman Kris Jenkins, nan boy of erstwhile Panthers and Jets protect tackle Kris Jenkins, is different imaginable first-round pick. The elder Jenkins was a second-round prime successful 2001 and a two-time All-Pro.
Harrison is acold from nan only ex-receiver pinch a draft-eligible boy playing nan aforesaid position.
Rice, wide considered nan top wide receiver successful NFL history, will watch to spot wherever his boy Brenden ends up aft finishing his assemblage profession astatine USC.
The elder is projected to beryllium a mid-round pick, while nan aforesaid is existent of Rice's Luke McCaffrey, nan boy of Super Bowl victor Ed McCaffrey and relative of 49ers prima Christian McCaffrey.
Playing nether presumptive No. 1 prime Caleb Williams, Rice had a productive 2023 arsenic he totaled 791 yards and 12 touchdowns for nan Trojans.
McCaffrey caught 71 balls for 13 scores and astir 1,000 yards astatine Rice successful his elder season.
Jerry Rice, seen successful 1988 pinch nan 49ers, is considered nan top receiver successful NFL history
Luke McCaffrey, nan boy of Super Bowl victor Ed McCaffrey, will perceive his sanction called this year
Terique Owens, nan boy of different Hall of Fame wideout successful Terrell Owens, is much of a longshot to beryllium picked successful nan later rounds of nan draft.
Another sanction that NFL fans will admit is Frank Gore Jr., nan boy of longtime moving backmost and five-time Pro Bowler Frank Gore, who is astir known for his clip pinch nan 49ers.
His boy is besides a moving back, and nan Southern Miss merchandise was named nan MVP astatine nan Shrine Bowl, a showcase for nan champion assemblage players held aft each season.
Gore Sr. is 3rd all-time successful nan NFL pinch precisely 16,000 profession rushing yards, ranking up of Barry Sanders and down Walter Payton and Emmitt Smith.
'It's a blessing,' Gore Jr. said of pursuing successful his dad's footsteps.
Luke (second left) is besides nan relative of 49ers prima Christian McCaffrey (second right)
Christian McCaffrey is simply a bonafide NFL star, and he led nan convention successful rushing yards past year
'I person nan work to return it further.'
Other players pinch salient ex-NFL dads see Clemson linebacker Jeremiah Trotter Jr. and edge Ron Stone Jr., nan boy of three-time Pro Bowler Ron Stone.
Trotter Jr. is nan boy of erstwhile Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter, a four-time Pro Bowl action who played successful nan Super Bowl for Andy Reid successful Philadelphia and besides had a circuit pinch Washington earlier returning to Philly.
Micah Abraham, nan boy of longtime protect backmost and one-time Pro Bowler Donnie Abraham, violative tackle Javon Foster (son of erstwhile protect lineman Jerome Foster), halfway Drake Nugent (son of erstwhile backmost Terry Nugent), separator rusher Jonah Elliss (son of two-time Pro Bowl protect tackle/end Luther Elliss), and edge Jaylen Harrel (son of erstwhile linebacker James Harrell) are besides candidates to beryllium drafted.
Frank Gore Jr. (right) celebrates winning nan LendingTree Bowl pinch his begetter Frank Sr. (left)
Terrell Owens and his boy Terique are seen successful an aged photo. Terique is simply a imaginable late-round pick
49ers GM John Lynch, a erstwhile subordinate himself, maintains nan worth of a player's lineage tin beryllium captious successful a last draught people and scouting report.
'I judge successful bloodlines,' Lynch said. 'I really do. I mean, I deliberation there's grounds that you should.
Then you person to measurement distant from that and you person to measure it. And that's sometimes difficult to do and that's why (you need) a batch of different eyes, a batch of different perspectives.
'There's immoderate inherent unit connected who their dada is, but there's besides immoderate bully genes and I deliberation that matters. ... it's a nosy constituent to this year's draught that I deliberation is going to beryllium absorbing to watch to spot really it unfolds.'
