ESPN’s Adam Schefter says the Colts are already part of the group that has checked in with the Arizona Cardinals about Marvin Harrison Jr.’s trade availability, with the NFL’s Tuesday, November 10th trade deadline approaching.
Schefter made the comment on ‘The Pat McAfee Show,’ and the idea of Indianapolis getting involved makes sense given how the Colts’ receiver room looks right now. Alec Pierce is on injured reserve, Keenan Allen was banged up and missed last weekend’s game, and veteran pickup Darius Slayton still has not been active through his first two weeks with the team.
Harrison, the 4th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, entered the league with the kind of hype usually reserved for rare prospects. He was viewed as a “can’t miss,” if not a generational, wide receiver talent. Instead, the 24-year-old has had a rough stretch with Arizona, where he has become something of an afterthought in the offense compared with the Cardinals’ other starting receivers.
The numbers tell the story. Harrison has just 5 receptions for 85 total receiving yards through Arizona’s first four games, and he scored his first touchdown of the season in Week 4. The source of the disappointment appears to be a mix of maturity concerns, underperformance and what has been described as not being properly used by the Cardinals’ offense.
There is also the family angle. Harrison is the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison Sr., the all-time greatest wide receiver in Indianapolis franchise history and the leader in nearly all of the Colts’ major receiving categories. Jr. is listed at 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds, and while he is bigger than his father, the resemblance between them is hard to ignore.
Trade speculation has already pushed Harrison’s value down in some anonymous league circles, where he is being viewed as worth a “quality Day 3 pick” and labeled more as a “3rd wide receiver with upside.” Even so, it is hard to imagine Arizona moving him unless the return is meaningful.
That same logic has been applied to how the Colts have handled backup quarterback Anthony Richardson’s availability to date.
For Indianapolis, Harrison would be more than just another possible addition. He would be a legacy piece, and the hope would be that Colts wide receivers coach Reggie Wayne - who formed one of the most prolific wide receiver duos in NFL history with Harrison Sr. - could provide some “tough love” to a still-young player who may need a new setting to get to his full potential.
At minimum, this looks like a buy-low opportunity on a player who was on nearly every team’s radar not long ago, including the Colts’.
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