If the Marvin Harrison Jr. trade chatter ever gets real for the Buffalo Bills, there’s one detail worth keeping front and center: this front office may already know plenty about him.
At this point, nobody is reporting that the Bills are actively chasing Harrison Jr., and there’s no sign that the Cardinals are even ready to consider moving him. But if the idea keeps bubbling up, Buffalo isn’t walking into the conversation blind.
The biggest reason is Drew Terrell. Buffalo’s new receivers coach spent the past three seasons in Arizona as the pass game coordinator and receivers coach, which lines up with the first two years of Harrison Jr.’s NFL career.
Terrell, a former receiver who is just 35 years old, began his NFL coaching career in 2018 with the Panthers as a quality control coach. He then moved to Washington, where he worked from 2020-2022 as an assistant receivers coach and later as the regular wide receiver coach in both 2021 and 2022.
There’s another familiar face in the Bills’ building, too. Special teams coach Jeff Rodgers was with the Cardinals from 2019-2025, serving as special teams coach and assistant head coach. Harrison Jr. hasn’t played on special teams, but Rodgers would still have had plenty of time around the organization to know him well.
What Terrell and Rodgers actually think of Harrison Jr. is the real unknown. But if Buffalo ever decides to seriously kick the tires on a trade, their familiarity with him could shape everything - either pushing the Bills toward action or giving the front office the kind of inside information that keeps them from making a move.
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