Marvin Harrison 2025 Season in Review

Marvin Harrison's second NFL season landed him as the number 50 wide receiver in total PPR scoring and the number 39 wide receiver in PPR per game among players with at least six games. That's the headline — and it's not the one Cardinals fans or anyone who drafted him this summer wanted. Harrison played 12 games for a 3-and-14 Arizona team that lost Kyler Murray for big chunks of the year, cycled to Jacoby Brissett under center, and finished with the worst rushing offense in football by yards per carry. In that mess, Harrison was a clear second fiddle in his own passing game — Trey McBride ran away with the target tree, catching 126 balls for nearly 1,240 yards and 11 touchdowns. Harrison was the field-stretcher, not the volume hub, and the box score reflects exactly that.

Now let's get into the numbers. Harrison finished with 41 catches on 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, averaging 10.7 PPR points per game — and that average hides a boom-or-bust ride. The efficiency is genuinely good: plus 31.1 receiving expected points added on just 73 targets and an 18 percent target share is excellent value per opportunity. Volume and consistency are the problem. Across 12 games he topped 18 PPR points just three times — week 1 at the Saints, week 4 against the Seahawks, and his season high of 22.6 in the week 9 win at Dallas — and finished under 8 PPR points in six different games, including a goose egg in week 17 at Cincinnati and a 2.4-point dud against Atlanta in week 16. He also did almost none of his damage after the catch. Just 119 yards. His fantasy weeks lived and died on whether the deep ball connected.

The play that captures the year best came in that week 9 Dallas trip. Third and 14, ball at midfield, late in the first quarter, Cardinals up 3-nothing — Brissett dropped back and hit Harrison on a deep middle dig for 20 yards and a third-down conversion worth more than 3 expected points. That's Harrison in 2025 in one snap: high-leverage, downfield, dependent on the throw being there. When it was, he smashed — Dallas was his best fantasy day of the year. When it wasn't, he got muffed by the same quarterback carousel and run-game collapse that sank the whole offense.