Marvin Harrison Jr.’s name has started popping up in trade chatter, and the reason is simple: Arizona spent the No. 4 pick in 2024 on a receiver expected to change games, but the production has not come close to matching that kind of investment.
NFL reporter Charles Robinson dug into what the market might look like if the Cardinals ever decided to listen. Around the league, front offices seem split on the price, but not on the bigger point: Harrison still has value, even if the expectations attached to him have made the evaluation messier than it should be.
One general manager put it this way:
“He is a player that is getting judged relative to what he was supposed to be, while people are losing sight of the fact that he is still a useful player,” the GM said.
Robinson reported that three front offices view Harrison as the kind of player who would bring back a late second-round pick. Their reasoning ties back to his Ohio State resume and what one personnel executive called the “uneven nature of the Arizona Cardinals franchise that he was drafted into.”
“I think what we saw at Ohio State is still in there. But [in just over two seasons] he’s had two coaching staffs, [two] quarterbacks, an injury - it fits into the production and probably where his head is.
… Football environment comes out. That’s not meant to criticize this [current] Arizona coaching staff, either.
I’m sure they inherited whatever happened with Marvin in 2025,”
a personnel executive said.
A different group of four executives put the price a little lower, seeing Harrison as worth a third-round pick plus another piece, whether that’s a late selection or some sort of pick swap. One GM pointed to the Cowboys’ deal for George Pickens, which sent a third- and fifth-round pick for Pickens and a sixth-round pick, as the kind of framework that could make sense.
There’s also a scenario, according to one GM, where Harrison gets moved in a one-for-one player swap. That executive pointed to the Titans-Jets trade of DT T’Vondre Sweat for DE Jermaine Johnson and even floated Jaguars WR Brian Thomas Jr. as a possible name in that kind of exchange.
As for possible landing spots, Robinson crossed the Rams, Packers and 49ers off the list because of the scheme similarities to Arizona. He said any team trading for Harrison should probably already know him, which is why he mentioned the Bills and Texans.
That connection is easy to see in Houston, where C.J. Stroud played with Harrison at Ohio State in 2022.
Buffalo has its own link through WR coach Drew Terrell, who worked with Harrison in Arizona in 2024 and 2025. Robinson also thought Bills WR Keon Coleman would make sense as a one-for-one swap candidate.
He also said any receiver-needy team could get involved, naming the Patriots, Steelers, Colts, Texans and Bills. Robinson added that a surge in Harrison’s production over the next few weeks would likely shut down the noise. If it doesn’t, and Arizona slips while other teams get desperate for help at receiver, a deadline move would not be out of the question.
Harrison is 24 and the son of Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison. At Ohio State, he was a three-year starter, the 2023 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year, a consensus All-American and the 2023 Fred Biletnikoff Award winner.
Arizona took him with the fourth overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. He signed a four-year, $35,374,742 contract that included a $22,547,084 signing bonus, was fully guaranteed at $35,374,742 and carried an average annual salary of $8,843,686.
In 2025, Harrison played 12 games for the Cardinals and finished with 41 catches for 608 yards and four touchdowns. In 2026, he has appeared in three games and has four receptions on nine targets for 73 yards.
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