After earning all-district honors as a football player at Southwest, he was offered athletic scholarships from several colleges but ultimately chose to stay in Fort Worth in order to study art at Texas Christian University.
[3] The New York Jets selected Harris in the 8th round of the 1979 NFL draft, though he never appeared in a game for the team after walking out of training camp and finding a job in commercial art that fall.
[5] Harris joined the New England Patriots for the 1983 season[6] before signing with the USFL's New Jersey Generals,[7] who were owned by future U.S. president Donald Trump.
[9] After earning an MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Harris moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, where he experimented with morbid artwork that included photographs from obituaries as well as toe-tags.
[9] Many of his works also evoke Western themes[10] – in 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Hunting Art Prize for his life-size photorealist graphite drawing titled Round Up: B.F. Smith & Son Saddlery Circa 1940–1942.