Marvin Harrison Jr. saw a small but meaningful role in his Houston Texans debut on Sunday in London, and the stat line showed a receiver getting his feet wet fast.
The Texans edged the Jacksonville Jaguars 34-31 on Ka'imi Fairbairn’s last-second 49-yard field goal after Jacksonville had tied the game with a 60-yard kick of its own. A week after Harrison was dealt from the Arizona Cardinals to Houston, plenty of eyes were on how he would fit in right away.
He played 12 snaps in the game, lining up on the boundary nine times and in the slot three times. On those 12 snaps, he was targeted four times and finished with three catches for 34 yards. His longest reception went for 14 yards.
That production isn’t eye-popping on its own, but it came in a very limited workload. Harrison’s busiest outing this season with the Cardinals came in Week 3 against the San Francisco 49ers, when he caught three passes for 40 yards on five targets. Even there, he was on the field for 66 snaps.
Through four games this season, Harrison had five catches for 85 yards and a touchdown. He was inactive last week for Arizona before being moved to Houston on Sunday, with the Texans sending a sixth-round pick in 2027 to the Cardinals in exchange for a 2027 second-round pick and a 2027 seventh-round pick.
If his snap count keeps climbing, the debut at least offered a preview of how much more involved he could become.
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