Marvin Harrison
Harrison enters this season healthy and central to Arizona's plan, but he's stuck in a crowded passing-game pecking order that's kept his target volume from matching his talent so far.
Role
Harrison is Arizona's primary outside receiver and gets a full offensive snap workload, but he splits the target pie with slot/possession man Michael Wilson and tight end Trey McBride, who has emerged as the offense's true target hog; on a given week Harrison's target count can swing from double digits down to just a few depending on game script and coverage.
He's fully healthy for the first time since being drafted, coaching has publicly called him the focal point of the passing game, and last year's per-target efficiency (yards per route run, first-read share, red-zone usage) suggested a talent breakout was building before injuries derailed the season — with a clean bill of health the volume many expect should finally show up.
Even in his best healthy stretch last year his target share topped out in the low-20% range, McBride and Wilson are both established, high-usage weapons in the same offense, and an unsettled/backup-caliber quarterback situation plus a run-game investment (rookie addition at RB) could cap the offense's overall pass volume and Harrison's ceiling with it.
Where analysts split
Analysts split on whether Harrison's target-share ceiling is a real constraint — driven by Wilson and McBride commanding a genuine share of the offense's looks — or whether it's a game-script/small-sample noise issue that resolves once he's fully healthy and the offense settles; Harrison himself has dismissed the target-share concern as overblown given the team's early record.
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