They are close friends and two of the best players in the Pac-12.
They used to bicker over everything — clothes, NBA2K video games, football. To this day, Washington cornerback Byron Murphy and Arizona State wide receiver N’Keal Harry — perhaps the two best players at their positions in the Pac-12 — talk and text regularly, one throwing out some trash talk and the other trying to out-do him.
“They truly are like brothers,” said Shannon Strickland, Murphy’s mother. “We are family.”
Their friendship will take a new twist Saturday night at Husky Stadium. The former high school teammates will for the first time line up against each other on a football field when the No.