Spring Football Player Profile: Marcus Freeman
Name: [URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87743&SPID=10408&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1059241"]Marcus Freeman[/URL]
Hometown: Huber Heights, Ohio
High School: Wayne
Position: Linebacker
Year: Senior
Last Season: Second-team All-Big Ten; second on the team with 109 tackles; 66 solo tackles led the team; Academic All-Big Ten
This Season: Third-straight year as a starter at linebacker; 23 career starts to his credit
Linebacker [URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87743&SPID=10408&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1059241"]Marcus Freeman[/URL] recently took the time to tell us about why he passed up the NFL to come back for his senior season. So stop asking him about it.
If
[URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87743&SPID=10408&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1059241"]Marcus Freeman[/URL] had a dollar for every time someone asked him why he chose to postpone entering the NFL and stay at Ohio State one more season he would never need the money playing football will someday bring him. It may be a question that he'll get tired of hearing soon, but it is not a hard one for him to answer. There is no doubt in Freeman?s mind that Ohio State is where the senior linebacker wanted to be in the upcoming year as a result of the bond he has formed with this university and his team.
?It is all about the tradition at Ohio State, the atmosphere in Columbus and the friendships I have made,? Freeman said. ?I wanted to experience that for one more year. It is something you do not get in the NFL.?
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