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Cardinals Finalizing Trade of WR Marvin Harrison Jr
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In Short: ESPN reports the Arizona Cardinals are finalizing a deal to trade wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., who will be inactive for Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions.
ESPN's Adam Schefter and NFL Network's Ian Rapoport report that the Arizona Cardinals are finalizing a deal to trade wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. Harrison will be inactive for Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions as the trade is completed.
According to Schefter, the Cardinals have been fielding calls about Harrison for the past few weeks. The team is reportedly not enthusiastic about trading him, but other teams are doing their due diligence into Harrison's potential.
The Houston Texans are among the teams interested in Harrison, according to Schefter and Rapoport. The Cardinals are reportedly seeking a second-round pick in return for Harrison.
Harrison, the fourth overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, has struggled to establish himself as the difference-making receiver the Cardinals envisioned. Through four games this season, he has five catches on 12 targets for 85 yards and a touchdown.
Harrison's performance has been disappointing, with just four catches for 73 yards and no touchdowns in the first four games of the 2026 season. He is the fifth most targeted player on the Cardinals offense.
The Cardinals drafted Harrison with high expectations after his successful stint at Ohio State. However, his career has not met the initial projections, with his 885 receiving yards in 2024 falling short of expectations. The average rookie season over the last decade was 901 receiving yards.
Some NFL executives believe Harrison needs a change of scenery to reach his potential. 'When you get injured, stop seeing the ball, have drops and not in the most stable quarterback position to help get that page turned, it can weigh on young guys,' one AFC executive told Jones.
The Cardinals informed Harrison this morning that he will be inactive for Sunday's game versus Detroit as details of the trade are finalized. The team is reportedly preparing to trade the former No. 4 overall pick, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who reported Saturday, October 10, that Harrison will be inactive for Arizona’s Week 5 matchup against the Detroit Lions.
What this adds
The Cardinals are shutting Harrison down before the team gets set to play the Detroit Lions at home on Sunday as they get ready for a trade. Some NFL executives believe Harrison needs a change of scenery to reach his potential.
Background
ESPN's Adam Schefter reports the Arizona Cardinals are finalizing a deal to trade wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., who will be inactive for Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions.
ESPN's Adam Schefter says the Arizona Cardinals are open to trade talks for wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., though they're not enthusiastic about it.
What's confirmed
- The Arizona Cardinals are reportedly finalizing a deal to trade wide receiver Marvin Harrison, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
- Schefter added a trade will not be made until after Sunday’s games are finished, while Rapoport added the Cardinals have taken calls involving Harrison for the last few weeks.
- Harrison will reportedly be inactive for Sunday’s game vs.
- The Texans are reportedly interested in Harrison, per Schefter and Rapoport.
- Breaking: the Arizona Cardinals are finalizing a deal to trade WR Marvin Harrison, sources tell me and @RapSheet.
- The Cardinals informed Harrison that he will be inactive for Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions as the trade is completed, sources said.
- Marvin Harrison Jr.'s time with the Arizona Cardinals is coming to an end after it began only three seasons ago as a first-round draft pick with a Hall of Fame pedigree and high expectations.
- The Arizona Cardinals are reportedly preparing to trade the former No. 4 overall pick, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who reported Saturday, October 10, that Harrison will be inactive for Arizona’s Week 5 matchup against the Detroit Lions.
- The Cardinals, we’re told, had been looking for a package that includes a second-round pick.
- Jordan Schultz confirms the news and adds that the teams involved in the deal would “prefer the trade destination is not announced” until they’ve played their Week 5 game.
- The Arizona Cardinals are trading their 2024 first round pick Adam Schefter is reporting the Arizona Cardinals are trading former fourth overall pick Marvin Harrison Jr., but did not say which team he is going to yet, or the compensation, but Marv will be inactive against the Detroit Lions on Sunday… based on his usage through four games he seemed to be inactive most weeks.
- The Houston Texans are among the teams that have held talks with the Cardinals and are believed to be in the mix for Harrison, according to Schefter and Rapoport.
What's still developing
- New reports indicate that they could be very close to trade him away, and hence, the wide receiver depth chart has changed.
- His pedigree, size, and big-play potential made him a centerpiece of the Cardinals’ rebuilding efforts.
- Rather than continuing to wait for Harrison to reach his potential, the Cardinals have chosen to move on.
- Harrison finished with 885 in 2024, a respectable start, even if it fell short of expectations.
- The Harrison experiment certainly didn't go the way either side expected, as 1,000-yard seasons seemed ahead of him and frequent trips to the end zone felt like a guarantee.
- Harrison vs. first-round receivers early in their careers There are encouraging numbers here.
- When Harrison joined the league after such a successful run with the Buckeyes, it didn't take much imagination to envision what the two-time unanimous All-American's NFL career might look like and the future looked hopeful.
- Two-plus seasons into his career, and Harrison Jr. hasn’t emerged as the game-changing No. 1 wideout the Cardinals thought they were getting when they drafted him fourth overall back in 2024.
- The son of legendary Colts wideout Marvin Harrison Sr., his namesake, is reportedly on the move, but it’s not to Indianapolis.
- Trade speculation about Marvin Harrison Jr. has continued to build amid a discouraging start to the 2026 season.
- According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter on ‘The Pat McAfee Show,’ the Indianapolis Colts are among the league suitors who have already called the Arizona Cardinals on the trade availability of underperforming young wideout Marvin Harrison Jr. ahead of the NFL’s upcoming Tuesday, November 10th trade deadline: Originally the 4th overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft by Arizona, and widely considered a “can’t miss,” if not a generational wideout prospect, the 24-year-old wideout has largely (and surprisingly) struggled in over 2 seasons with the Cardinals—having been an increasing afterthought within their offense compared to their other starting receivers.
- "Jeudy being squeezed out, he could be had before the trade deadline."