Chris Harris' story perfectly explains why Tim Tebow left NFL for baseball
The former Broncos quarterback announced that he'll try to make it in MLB after a failed NFL career
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Tim Tebow's football career ended Tuesday. Unofficially, of course, it's been over for four years, considering Tebow last attempted a pass a wobbler that resembled a pass in a real NFL game during the 2012 season. But, on Tuesday, Tebow officially quit football by switching to baseball.
The day before Tebow announced his intention to give baseball his best shot, Broncos cornerback Chris Harris told a story about Tebow that just became so much more relevant. Harris' story now serves as the perfect reminder as to why Tebow is leaving the game of football.
During Harris' first training camp in 2011 as an undrafted rookie, he intercepted Tebow so many times that the Broncos' coaching staff told him to stop picking off the team's first-round rookie quarterback.
Harris practiced with so much intensity that the coaches often had to tell him to take it down a notch -- partially because he kept finding himself on the receiving end of Tim Tebow's passes.
"A lot of times, [coaches] had to tell me to cut back, don't pick off a lot of Tebow's balls. That's how hard I was out there working," Harris said.
Just imagine that for a second. Tebow was a Heisman trophy winner on whom Denver had used a first-round draft pick in 2010. Yet here was Harris, an undrafted player out of the University of Kansas, picking him off so often that the coaches had to tell him to cool it.
That actually isn't that hard to imagine. In Tebow's career, he generated a passer rating of 75.3 and completed less than 50 percent of his passes. Meanwhile, Harris emerged as one of the best cornerbacks in the game. If anything, it would've been surprising if Harris hadn't frequently picked off Tebow.
And with that, we -- the CBSSports.com NFL team -- say goodnight and good luck to Tebow and hand him over to our MLB team. For now, at least.
