Royce Freeman Talks Football and Life In Piece For The Players’ Tribune

Oregon Running Back Royce Freeman opens up about life off the field in piece for The Players Tribune.

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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.

"Oregon wants you to be a good person, and they go out of their way to set you up for life after football.Royce Freeman on his reason for committing to Oregon(via The Players Tribune, Let’s Fly)"

The first school to come calling wasn’t Oregon, but Washington. Eventually they came calling. Freeman offers some great insight into his personal life and says that Eugene is a good fit for him. He watched players several years ago that now he is chasing. LaMichael James could see his Rushing Record fall this year to Freeman.

The 2016 season gets going on Saturday against UC Davis. KIckoff is set for 2pm Pacific Time.