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Brenden Rice will follow in his father's footsteps this week and become an NFL wide receiver, but that's where he wants the comparisons to end.

The USC receiver told TMZ Sports there is no way he will wear Jerry Rice's No. 80 in the pros.

"I would love to go ahead and make my own impact," Rice said.

Jerry Rice is, by any objective measure, the greatest wide receiver in NFL history. He owns the NFL record for receptions (1,549), receiving yards (22,895) and receiving touchdowns (197) while playing decades before the current pass-heavy era. A three-time Super Bowl champion, Rice was a 13-time Pro Bowl selection and was named to 11 All-Pro teams.

Suffice it to say filling his shoes will be an impossible task for Brenden, who is considered a Day 3 draft prospect. The B/R Scouting Department ranks Rice as the No. 152 overall player in the 2024 class.

While Brenden wants to carve his own legacy, he did say he'd be open to playing for the San Francisco 49ers, his father's longtime team.

"As long as [they know] I want to come in and create my own legacy and my own name, I don't mind where I go to," Rice said. "I feel as though being with the 49ers would be a great stepping stone or starting point for me, and I get to go ahead into something where a legacy was already built. But I want them to know I'm coming in here to work and take someone's job."

Brenden Rice split his college career at Colorado and USC, setting career highs for receptions (45), receiving yards (791) and touchdowns (12) last season.

Brenden's brother, Jerry Rice Jr., played college football at UCLA and Utah before signing with the Washington Commanders as an undrafted free agent in 2014. He suffered a torn labrum in training camp and never played a down with the Commanders.