Through the first two weeks of the 2026 season, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. has just one catch for 33 yards. Five different players on the Cardinals have more grabs, including both of the team's running backs. Harrison has only been targeted four times by Jacoby Brissett in those two games, a mark that ranks tied for fifth on the team with Tyler Allgeier.
Ostensible No. 3 wideout Kendrick Bourne has more than twice as many targets (11) and 10 times as many catches (10) as Harrison. The raw counting stats sound bad, but the rate stats might be even worse when you look at them in the context of the league. There are 103 wide receivers who have run 25 or more routes so far this year, according to TruMedia.
Harrison ranks 100th among that group in target rate, at 6.5%. Such luminaries as Konata Mumpfield, Kevin Coleman Jr., Bryce Lance, LaJohntay Wester and Xavier Legette have been targeted more often on a per-route basis. He ranks 92nd in yards per route run, at 0.52.
Players like Jahan Dotson and Isaiah Williams and Roman Wilson have generated more yards on a per-route basis. Ordinarily, a receiver getting off to a poor start to the season wouldn't be all that notable. The difference is that Harrison isn't just any wide receiver.
He's the son of Marvin Harrison, one of the greatest receivers of all time. He's the former No. 4 overall pick in the NFL Draft. And he was widely considered one of the best wide receiver prospects in years when he came out of Ohio State.
And he's already been disappointing through the first two years of his career. So this cold start is especially notable, and especially alarming. He looks like he could go down as a huge draft bust if anything remotely like this keeps up.
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