The Oregon Ducks will look to their Starting Running Back to be more vocal this year, and he admits that it is not his nature in a recent piece he wrote for The Players’ Tribune. Freeman opens up about his home life before football and talks about how all he knew about Oregon back then was there were a lot of trees.
As a kid, he did not realize his football potential until a 60 yard kickoff return changed his frame of mind. He was too big for the Junior Varsity and had to move up to the Varsity team at Imperial High School where he made a statement or two before being recruited for College.