"I've never heard of him...But, if he keeps riding like he did tonight, he's going to have a good future," said Don Gay, an eight-time PRCA bull-riding world champion.
"[9] In February at a PRCA Xtreme Bulls event in San Antonio, Texas, Harris received his worst injury of his career in 2008.
"I guess my worst injury was (when) I had a bull crush the left side of my face last year in San Antonio.
[7] On October 29, in Kansas City, Missouri, in Kemper Arena, at the American Royal, at his last competition before the NFR, Harris completed an 89-point ride on Stace Smith Pro Rodeo's For Real and it brought him $9,419 in winnings.
[15] On Friday night, December 10, in Round 9 of the NFR, Harris claimed his third consecutive bull riding world championship.
Harris received a Resistol 20X cowboy hat as well as a Henry custom CBR Golden Boy rifle.
In May 2011, Harris won another Cinch CBR Tour event; this time the George Paul Memorial Bull Riding at the Val Verde County Fairgrounds in Del Rio, Texas.
[18] In July 2012, Harris won the first round of the CBR World Finals at Cheyenne Frontier Days, which allowed him a spin on the bounty bull.
He made a qualified ride, and drove his newly won Mahindra Max Tractor out of the arena.
[7] In Round 1 of the 2012 NFR, Harris took the lead with a 90.5 point ride aboard Four Star Rodeo's bull Stink Eye.
[23] On Friday night, December 13, at the NFR, in Round 9, Harris tied for 1st place and won his fourth bull riding world championship.
The event took place in the Rushmore Civic Center at the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Commentator and two-time PBR world champion Justin McBride said that he thought Harris would ride Mick E. Mouse and that he still believed he will.
Sage Kimzey and Cody Campbell split the average at the Xtreme Bulls Tour Finale at the Ellensburg Rodeo Arena, but could not defeat Harris as the World Standings leader despite him missing the event due to injury.
Harris said that Long John "nearly shoved one of my lower vertebrae out of my spine", resulting in chronic back pain.
[35] In mid-October, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Harris competed in the PBR BFTS World Finals.
[10] The PBR Rookie of the Year award is presented to the bull rider who earns the most points in the World Standings on their season on the BFTS.
[10] On Saturday, December 13, Kimzey, the 20-year-old rookie from Strong City, Oklahoma, won the PRCA bull riding world championship with $318,631 and the NFR Average title with 671 points on eight head.
[38] On February 15, Harris competed in the PBR Caterpillar Classic held at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
[30] On March 22, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Ty Murray Invitational, in WisePies Arena, on a Sunday afternoon, Harris met up with the three-time World Champion Bull Contender Mick E. Mouse for the third time.
[42] On the last weekend of March, at the KeyArena, in Seattle, Washington, Harris faced World Champion Bull Contender Smooth Operator.
Harris spent this season challenging the rankest bulls, such as Smooth Operator, Little Red Jacket, and Mick E. Mouse, but not quite getting a qualified ride on any of them.
But more broadly, Harris was hoping to conquer Long John as the start of a streak that could get him to the world champion bull rider title.
The family made the trip to Dallas, Texas, to see Dr. Tandy Freeman, who diagnosed Harris with a torn right PCL.
Harris had been close to returning to the BFTS after his previous hip and elbow surgery, and was eyeing the Thackerville, Oklahoma, event, set for September 3.
[47] On a Friday, in mid-February, at the BFTS event in Anaheim, California, Harris broke a long buckoff streak by making a qualified ride on the bull Thunderstruck in Round 1.
They met in the championship round, and Air Time bucked him off in 2.13 seconds to earn a high bull score of 45.25 points.
[54] In late April, Harris once again won the George Paul Memorial Bull Riding in Del Rio, Texas.
[55] At the 2018 NFR, Harris joined veteran commentators Jeff Medders and Butch Knowles in the booth during the airing of the event on CBS Sports Network to provide color commentary during the bull riding segments.
[56] Even though he said 2020 would be his final year of competition, Harris kept on riding through the spring of 2021, with the PRCA Xtreme Bulls event in Mercedes, Texas, on May 12 officially being his last one.