If ever a receiving prospect appeared to be laboratory-built for success in the NFL, it’s Marvin Harrison Jr. He arrives in the league as an uncommonly polished route-runner coming off consecutive 1,200-yard seasons at Ohio State.
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Harrison has ideal size (6-foot-3), excellent hands, suddenness and separation ability. He excels in contested situations, yet also excels at creating uncontested situations.
Over the past two seasons, Harrison has cooked the best defenses in college football — including Georgia in 2022 (5-106-2) and Michigan last year (5-118-1) — so there are zero quality-of-competition concerns to be found on the scouting report.
Harrison has also averaged better than 3.0 yards per route run in back-to-back years, which is outrageous. Basically, he’s a player with no glaring weaknesses and an abundance of obvious strengths. He was always going to be the top fantasy option in the 2024 rookie class, regardless of landing spot.
This is a case in which both film and stat nerds agree on the greatness of the player, too. Good luck finding any serious MHJ doubters. He’s clearly a huge talent.
As the most bullish ranker on Harrison within the Yahoo fantasy team, it falls to me to make the case that he can, in fact, deliver first-round fantasy value in his first pro season. I’m certainly not about to declare that Harrison is likely to finish as the overall WR1, but I do actually think it’s within his range of potential outcomes. Perhaps more importantly, there’s very little chance that a healthy MHJ will finish outside the top 20 receivers in 2024.
In addition to being the pre-draft consensus No. 1 receiver in this year’s rookie class — and the consensus top receiver in college football the season before — Harrison also happened to find his way to one of the best possible destinations for immediate production. He’s now paired with two-time Pro Bowl quarterback Kyler Murray in an Arizona…
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Publish date : 2024-06-04 14:31:02
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