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When former five-star offensive lineman Harry Miller signed with the Ohio State Buckeyes and emerged as a starter on a team that ultimately played for a national championship, he likely expected that his fame and success would come on the football field. But that’s not exactly how his life panned out.

After struggles with his mental health that left him considering suicide, Harry Miller ultimately left the team and is now an outspoken advocate for mental health, even appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America last year. And now he’s getting quite a unique honor as he’s been invited to attend Tuesday night’s State of the Union address delivered by Joe Biden.

And Ohio State head coach Ryan Day, who is an outspoken advocate for mental health himself, said on Tuesday that he is very proud of all that Miller has accomplished.

“To see him get recognized like this at the White House and something of this magnitude and the type of people that he’s going to be around tonight is just tremendous,” Day said of Miller’s White House honor, according to Ohio State reporter Dan Hope of Eleven Warriors. “I’m just so proud of what he’s done.”

Miller will be one of 25 people invited as special guests of First Lady Jill Biden who “personify issues or themes to be addressed” that will be included in Joe Biden’s speech on Tuesday.

[Dan Hope]