I know there are dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of you out there who always have wondered how well you’d fare against a professional athlete in your chosen sport.
Well, so did Monday Morning Quarterback writer Andy Benoit, a 29-year-old who recently challenged for Kansas University cornerback to a round of one-on-ones in Bixby, Oklahoma, at Harris’ youth camp.
Benoit, who seemed to be a decent athlete in his own right, [wrote a nice recap of his afternoon][1] matching up with one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL and he also included the following video, which makes for some serious entertainment.
You can see that Harris, ever the professional, took it serious enough to keep his reputation in tact but also did not bring anywhere near the noise that he brings snap after snap on Sundays with the Broncos. The reason? He didn’t exactly have to.
Either way, it’s a good read and a fun video. Props to Harris for accepting Benoit’s challenge and to Benoit for giving it a shot.
From the article, here’s how Benoit found himself on the field with Harris…
> “I told my bosses, Peter King and
> editor Mark Mravic, that I wanted to
> play wide receiver one-on-one against
> an NFL cornerback and write about it.
> Peter and Mark became the first in a
> long line of people who would laugh at
> me. After convincing them I was
> serious, Peter said I could do it if I
> found a superstar to face. Perhaps
> this was Peter’s polite, backdoor
> method of discouraging the idea-like
> how you might tell a kid he can get
> his own house if his lemonade sales
> raise enough funds. My pool of
> prospects went from 130 corners to
> less than 10. But to my surprise, the
> man at the top of my list, Denver
> Broncos star Chris Harris, immediately
> said yes, almost no questions asked.
> In our business, that’s like finding a
> holy grail filled with winning scratch
> tickets.”
[1]: http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/05/31/chris-harris-nfl-denver-broncos
