The 2024 debut scouting report...our debate/dissent on Marvin Harrison Jr. being 'generational'.
July 2024: *Reposting this for today because I'm sure I will ruffle Marvin feathers on my podcast appearance today.
April 2024: (*There's suddenly a lot of attention in my Marvin Harrison Jr. scouting, from my latest podcast appearance. I didn't go into great detail on my MHJ case because we switched thoughts and were running out of showtime. So, here's my detailed MHJ scouting report published on 1/18 for free view for all the people curious. This is the unedited, exact report written 1/18 with the same intro that was predicting this current 'future' of what the social media detractors are hammering me on, as usual.)
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January 2024:
*WR grades can and will change as more information comes in from Pro Day workouts, Wonderlic test results leaked, etc. We will update ratings as new info becomes available.
*WR-B stands for "Big-WR," a classification we use to separate the more physical, downfield/over-the-top, heavy-red-zone-threat-type WRs. Our WR-S/"Small-WRs" are profiled by our computer more as slot and/or possession-type WRs who are typically less physical and rely more on speed/agility to operate underneath the defense and/or use big speed to get open deep...they are not used as weapons in the red zone as much.
Let’s start out with this statement: This is likely to be unlike any scouting report or commentary you’ve ever read or will read (this year) on Marvin Harrison Jr.
I can make that statement because all I’ve seen for two years is commentary on how great and transcendent Harrison is. I don’t recall any negative takes on Harrison. Thou Shalt Not-not think Marvin Harrison Jr. (let’s shorten that to MHJ, so I can save some typing stress) is great... You MUST believe, or you’re football-dumb, that he’s the #1 WR prospect and possibly the #1 prospect for the 2024 NFL Draft...and possibly one of the greatest WR prospects of our lifetime.
MHJ has such a drumbeat of positivity from analysts and scouts, that even I thought this was going to be a lay-up scouting study/grading/report...I thought for sure that when I did a full scouting study and ran the analytics that Harrison would be great and that this year was gonna be a debate over ’who’s better...’ Marvin Harrison Jr. or Malik Nabers (I’ve been a Nabers guy since scouting him briefly in the summer of 2023 for a Devy preview scouting series we do each summer). I thought I would be writing at length trying to convince people that Nabers was better than Harrison.
Now, I think I am about to write about a report debating whether Marvin Harrison Jr. is even really that ‘good’ of a WR prospect or not.
That last statement got ya, didn’t it?
I will release (typically) one report per year for free view...usually, I select one of the first reports that I do, and almost always it’s on a scouting report that’s a huge departure from the mainstream. Last year, that was a (then) radical scouting report on Bryce Young, and how unworthy he was of being a 1st-round prospect and how he was nothing like what ‘they’ were saying.
I’m leading off this Harrison Jr. scouting report with this roundabout chat, not diving into the MHJ details just yet (I will in a moment), because when I release this for free view...and new readers go to read it, they will read no further than the inflammatory statement about Harrison being good or not and then click off and leave...or they will go a little deeper just to aggravate themselves to a boiling point and then stop reading and take to Twitter/X to mock me. It’s happened every single scouting year of my professional life.
This next section is for new readers, so to my existing audience forgive me for a moment/here’s a refresher on how many of us arrived here over the years...
I just want to state, for those whose first introduction to my work is this article – I know what most of you who have never heard of me or read my work are going to do/how you’re going to react to this. Do what you gotta do. Football is a religion for many...and for the people that won’t even consider an alternative football thought, I know your pastors and teachers are ESPN and NFL Network or any other popular mainstream analysts and that the sheer volume and veracity of the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ where EVERYBODY KNOWS Marvin Harrison Jr. is uber-great...this vortex, this scouting hivemind pulls you in every time. It’s your comfort zone for listening to or watching a lot of podcasts about football, etc. You wanna be part of ‘the club’.
When you’re caught into the net of mainstream football thinking, believing that people with ‘real’ football jobs are smarter and holier than any outside-the-system-analyst you are not only going to lap up everything they spit out at you...but you are also going to dismiss anyone who says/thinks/postures anything to the contrary. You will especially dismiss alternative thinking if it comes from outside your football church. Anything not related to ESPN or to a various ‘network’ or not from a highly viewed/watched podcast/YouTube show...outsiders of the worldwide football mega-church thought leaders/influencers are easily, quickly dismissible as heretical, unqualified and/or just stupid. Many are trapped in this football bubble without realizing it...and happily trapped in the bubble for the product/thing they LOVE so much, in many cases.
So, for most of you that I just described...do what you do – defend the fortress you’re an ‘insider’ of.
But there will be a few new readers who give this report/our work a chance...ones who will read this report and like or hate it but won’t react in horror to it...and who will appreciate a different scouting thought process. I’m writing this for you...I’m trying to bring you out of the football cult. I used to be in the football cult, brainwashed and all, so I know. The church of Scientology has NOTHING on the cult of football fans who utterly adore everything about football and will thus worship the party lines/media and everything about ‘their’ favorite team.
If I can reach just one person...
I would just state one more thing before we get into the Harrison Jr. report: If ‘they’ (the leading football minds and employed personnel people, etc.) are so smart, so above reproach in scouting and football analysis, including ex-players and ex-coaches (who are worst among the ‘church’ leadership of football) – then how is it that every single man, woman, and child believed Bryce Young was a great NFL prospect, most thinking him the single best prospect of the 2023 class?
How could there be so much ‘agreeing’ on something like Bryce Young...or on anything, football related or not? People never agree about anything except when it comes to top NFL prospects, then there is little/no room for divergence. The leading minds in the business were in lockstep on Bryce Young -- and that evaluation is going to be so wrong that it will go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes in the NFL Draft’s existence. And it’s not just this one error, every scout gets things wrong -- but it’s the constant stream of error year-after-year-after-year we get from the football analysis community. How is it that people continue to accept their football opinions given their track record...doing so happily...eagerly?
And yet, it’s 2024, and you’re gonna hang on their every word and read every mock and get swayed into falling in love with prospects based on what ‘they’ say...and I do mean fall in love. If it were not so, why might you be so agitated or intrigued (or both) by me stating upfront that I’m not sure if Marvin Harrison Jr. is even any good or not? Where does your love and/or assurance of Harrison come from? It comes from ‘them’...they’re so sure, so you’re so sure...but what if they’re wrong...again?
You may back down to a thought of: ‘Well...the draft isn’t a science, and you/they can’t get them all right?’ No kidding. But then how can THEY be so sure about Harrison Jr.? And why are you thinking I must have an agenda or am just trying to be contrarian to make such a blasphemous statement? If you admit football scouting is not a science and has a lot of errors – then why can’t I state my scouting case without people attacking it like I spoke out against their family or their church? And if you don’t even know my track record or know or really care about ‘theirs’ (the industry leading voices), then why should your own instincts be trusted? You trust them blindly. I’m trying to help you see. But you’re probably going to reject my offer and blindly distrust me without even reading this all the way through.
I invite you to read on to let me state my case.
And I would like to also note, to establish my motivations and experience: I make a living putting my scouting into action. I’m not just a jock-sniffer who loves football and wants to bask in it. I scout to make money – betting props, playing and advising on Fantasy Football, working with football agents. I cannot afford to be wrong. I cannot just ‘take their word for it’. We made ourselves and our clients so much money betting against Bryce Young’s 2023 over/under outputs and the Carolina Panthers’ under win total – we made that profit from our scouting results, which was totally against what anyone was proposing on Bryce in the mainstream. I make a living playing off of/knowing what the mainstream is gonna do, and where I think they are getting things radically wrong.
So, with that all being said... I invite new readers to read this report (and others) and end up being angry/dismissive about it for reasons I don’t, and you really don’t, understand. Football fandom is mostly about attacking, smack talking, and having ‘hot takes’...and I know most passionate ‘fans’ are not likely going to change their mind on anything...they will not leave their cult easily -- so you go do what you gotta do. Attack me as you desire. I’ve been through this over-and-over for a decade+ with the rise of social media. I rarely look at our socials on purpose, so it won’t mean anything to me what you comment. If you feel better about attacking, defending your football church – go for it. In fact, I need the majority of football society to doubt our scouting because I’ll be betting on it/against them...putting my money where my mouth is...it’s how I make a living, so I need the majority betting on the things they shouldn’t as sold to them by their overlords in football analysis.
But some of you new readers here, ones who will go into this (and any of our other reports) with an open mind...you’re in for a treat this draft season. I might change your football life/mindset from here on in. If you like this style of reporting, I would encourage you to go back and read our free Bryce Young report from last year...but also take in some of the other positive things like our Isiah Pacheco work pre-Draft, etc. And even read and consider the ones I whiffed on – Kyren Williams comes to mind (but I may have my day on this yet). If I am wrong, I will admit it and change it fast – I cannot afford to hold onto a bad hand and keep chipping into the pot. I hope you enjoy this style of scouting and I hope it can change the way you think about football scouting and analysis...if you open the door and walk through.
And to my faithful readers from OUR cult... This type of reporting is nothing new to you. Thank you for loyalty to the throne. Let’s kick off our 2024 NFL Draft scouting reports in style by questioning the unquestionable Marvin Harrison Jr.
So much of scouting is ‘emotion’ and ‘feelings’...and I came into this study with a ‘positive’ pre-feeling on Harrison. So much hype. Has the ‘name’. Good production in college. What’s not to love? I settled into watching five of his toughest-opponent games (Mich 2x, Ga., Penn St., N. Dame) ready to look for nuances to make a Harrison v. Nabors debate.
But the key thing about scouting is to have an open mind for your studies, flush all the media fervor (which is almost always ‘too much’ or just ‘wrong’), and just observe and judge compared to my scouting experience of other similar players at the prospect’s position. It’s not easy to block out the noise...to not just ‘see what everyone else sees/says’. The ability to see beyond the conventional wisdom is the key to scouting, in my book...and rare are the people who can do it. If that were not true, then why is there always 99.9% acceptance/agreement on the top prospect/s in the draft? Why do all the mock drafts look the same, and then the actual NFL Draft mostly follows the mock drafts at the top of the 1st-round?
I deeper study and analyze about 100+ rookie WR prospects per offseason and I watch every NFL game in-season twice (live, and back again on tape to scout deeper for Fantasy Football and Prop betting opportunities)...I have a lot of player tape comparisons stored in my head, in my experience. So, when I started watching select 2022 season games of Harrison leading up to watching his 2023 work, as my session continued to unfold, I was figuratively looking around like: ‘Is this it’? This is supposed to be the unquestioned generational superstar WR talent?
I texted FFM scout Ross Jacobs after watching two 2022 games (Mich., Ga.) and then a 2023 game (PSU), and I asked – ‘What am I missing about Harrison...I don’t get it’? Then I watched Notre Dame corner Benjamin Morrison take on Harrison Jr. in their 2023 game, and Morrison completely shut down/toyed with Harrison...and then I texted Ross...’I think there’s something with Harrison...something doesn’t feel right’. I kept looking for, expecting to see this surreal WR...and yet after a few hours of tape, I hadn’t seen one thing from Harrison Jr. that lit up my world. No real glowing notes. The best I could say was: He’s not bad. He's pretty good, I guess. He’s reliable. He’s well-trained. He’s NFL-worthy.
I know, with all my time spent scouting thousands of prospects over 10+ years...when I watch a player’s tape against their toughest opposition, and I have no real glowing notes and no signature moments/plays that stick out in my head – there’s a potential problem with the prospect (if they are supposed to be otherworldly). When I watched approximately 15-20 or so minutes of scouting preview tape on Malik Nabers last summer, within a minute of watching him, I was captivated...I knew I was seeing ‘something’...something potentially special. I didn’t have a moment of that with Harrison’s hours of tape this year.
I really don’t have anything special to note on MHJ’s tape study. I’m not seeing bubble screen magic. I’m not seeing super-quick feet off the snap that leaves the defender instantly in the dust. I see some neat totally covered (by his CB) contested catches on the outside, especially back shoulder ‘trickeration’ throws and then I see plenty of classic OSU WR drag routes across the (short) middle of a zone wide open for a simple dump pass and go, like I’ve seen them do a thousand times over the years, back to Parris Campbell and on up to the modern day. I’m just not seeing any ‘wow’ from the MHJ tape.
I’m not saying Harrison is incompetent or potential ‘bust’ like analyst’s lovechild WR from early/pre-Draft 2023, eventual 1st-round draft pick bust Quentin Johnston...but I just don’t see anything special with Harrison. Nothing stands out that screams star. He’s not burning defenders with raw speed (but he’s got solid NFL speed)...nor getting open like magic with agile feet off the snap...and he’s big/tall but not physical, he’s more finesse. He has ‘plus’ hands, that’s his best attribute to me. He’s also well trained, so he’s not a head case who runs the wrong/bad routes like a Kadarius Toney or Jameson Williams might do.
The best I can say about Marvin Harrison Jr., from all my tape sessions, is – he’s good. He’s not great. He knows how to play the game from a HOF father/coach his whole life. He’s likely had the best training money can buy all his life. He’s been afforded the luxury of being able to concentrate on football his whole life and has an NFL body to go after it. He’s well-schooled, competent...but I don’t see ‘special’, nor do I see ‘consistency’ as a superpower here.
I’d say that Harrison might be a ‘C’ talent who has been afforded uber-training his whole life which has made him into a ‘B’ range WR pro prospect, but his ‘name’ takes all of that and makes him a publicly perceived A/A+ prospect, and that’s not fair...to him or others who deserve the label. If he were ‘Mervin Harris’, WR Wake Forest (let’s say)...he’d probably be a day two or three pick that not many would really talk/glow about...but his ‘name’ and the high-profile school bumps his stock up past where I think it should be.
Hard worker. Sweet kid. NFL-worthy. Not a generational talent. Not the best WR in this draft even. He’s not in Malik Nabers’ class of WR talent, but Nabers is a differently built/styled WR (and a 100 times better)...and I suspect there will be other WRs we’ll have ranked/graded ahead of Harrison by the time we’re finished.
Marvin Harrison, Through the Lens of Our WR Scouting Algorithm:
-- 2022 and 2023 Consensus All-American.
-- 2023 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year.
-- 2023 Fred Biletnikoff Award winner (WR of the year)
-- #1 in the Big Ten in rec. yards and TDs, #2 in receptions. Back-to-back #1 in the Big Ten in receiving TDs.
The college output is nice for Harrison...back-to-back 1,200+ yard seasons and 28 TDs in 25 games is high-end, but on a % basis of the team’s passing games, Harrison was good not ‘wow’, historically, comparatively in catches or yardage but is higher end in TD production...but I didn’t see this TD machine (the way you’d think) on tape.
I focused my tape watching and re-watching on his five toughest opponent games, and in four of them he had 100+ yards and 1 or more TDs, but the game I remember the most, because it was so eye-opening, was his Notre Dame game in 2023 -- 3 catches for 32 yards and 0 TDs. He tweaked his ankle in the game and came out for a few plays but then went back in and finished the game...and he looked fine enough, but what I remember most is – Notre Dame CB Benjamin Morrison shutdown/manhandled Harrison. It was no match when they matched up. What I’ve seen in the media analysis of this was: Oh, well...Harrison was hurt...so, it doesn’t count (essentially). I think football people are so in the tank for Harrison Jr. that there cannot be any negatives, and the appearance of one is shot down quickly. I saw this game tape (MHJ v. Notre Dame) as a real concern because he was struggling before and after the tweak.
Harrison Jr. can look great all he wants against Indiana and Youngstown State or even have some back shoulder moments against Michigan or Georgia, but head-to-head against Notre Dame CB Benjamin Morrison, MHJ wasn’t even close...and he’ll face that style of talent regularly in the NFL. I leave the MHJ scouting sessions with the impression of: Wow, I like this Benjamin Morrison kid from Notre Dame...when is he draft eligible? That’s not a good scouting sign for Harrison Jr. when I remember the corners more than him.
Projected NFL Combine/Pro Day Measurables:
6’3+/205-210
4.5 +/- 40-time
7.0 +/- three-cone
*And if I were Harrison’s agent, I would not let him do ANY public drills. Harrison’s draft stock can only fall on his athletic reality...there is no upside for him to go, and I don’t think he has upside athleticism anyway.
The Historical WR Prospects to Whom Marvin Harrison Most Compares Within Our System:
I really do not love any of these comps for Harrison Jr., although I will say when I saw the Isaiah Hodgins comp, I did think it kinda made some sense. But then there’s this run of great WR comps that our computer models see – Davante-CeeDee-Keenan potential. In Davante Adams’s and Keenan Allen’s case...they got better in the pros as they went along. I’d be a fool not to allow hope for that growth from a well-trained, hard-working, smart athlete like MHJ.
I think Harrison’s upside is a Michael Pittman or Nico Collins type WR, but he’s not the aggressive athlete nor the studier frame or speed of Pittman or Collins, at similar stages I studied them. I fell in love with Pittman in an instant pre-Draft/at the Senior Bowl...ditto Nico. No such reaction with my intro to Harrison Jr. deeper studies. Pittman’s game is evolving to bubble screens along with his route running and deep ball prowess. Nico came into his own in 2023...when C.J. Stroud arrived. I don’t see Harrison being the bubble screen guy ever...I see him more as ‘stuck on the outside’, ‘prefers to be on the outside’...kinda like another highly lauded but NFL disappointment (from his pre-Draft hype) Jerry Jeudy.
Perhaps Harrison Jr. is a silent assassin prospect that’s easy to overlook, like Keenan Allen...a guy whose best quality is subtle consistency. I can’t rule that, as a scout, I can be caught looking for ‘wow’ and can be underselling the boring steadiness...but Allen works from the slot a bunch and I don’t see signs of Harrison being the kind of WR that Keenan or CeeDee are (slot WRs). Maybe Harrison Jr. can train and develop into what it took 3+ years in Green Bay for Davante Adams to become...but I think Harrison has had more advanced training by the time hit high school than Adams had as he hit the pros. Adams transformed in the NFL...and it took 3+ years to do so.
And if you think comparing Harrison Jr. to Hodgins is egregious...then you are not familiar with Hodgins career/college work. And it’s not a crime not to know Hodgins’ career...but if you reacted in disgust to the notion and you don’t know Hodgins’ career – then you’re making the mainstream mistake I’ve been trying to convey...you’re sucked into the media swell/emotion of things. Don’t kill me for trying not to be...
Per game numbers their final/best year in college:
7.2 rec., 97.6 yards, 1.08 TDs = Hodgins junior/final season at Oregon State (2019)
5.6 rec., 100.9 yards, 1.17 TDs = Harrison Jr. (2023)
And I’m not saying that showing some college numbers that are similar therefore means they’re close as prospects...not at all. I’m simply trying to show a case to try and put Harrison Jr. in some reasonable context, and not just auto-sign onto ‘what everyone else is saying’ hysteria on MHJ.
Maybe if Hodgins’ dad was a Hall of Famer...he would’ve been perceived differently coming out of college in 2020? Maybe if Hodgins worked with C.J. Stroud, it would have gotten him noticed more in college...but Hodgins played for the wrong ‘OSU’. Hodgins worked with Jake Luton...Hodgins was rarely on TV...Hodgins was drafted in the 6th-round and was soon after buried on the practice squad by the Bills, then poached by the Giants two years later, and was a shock impact player late last season in the NYG playoff run in 2022. Hodgins didn’t get to skip the Combine timings at his convenience (like I assume MHJ will)...Hodgins didn’t get to be a day one starter to grow with his new QB/team in the pros (like MHJ absolutely will).
Maybe Hodgins isn’t a talent worthy of better NFL treatment, but what do you say about an NFL system that didn’t draft him but did draft (his eligible year) Jalen Reagor in the 1st-round...and Van Jefferson in the 2nd-round...and Lynn Bowden in the 3rd-round and Antonio Golden-Gandy in the 4th-round and Tyler Johnson in the 5th-round...and K.J. Osborn in the 6th-round...just as some examples of WRs who were terrible but got drafted ahead of Hodgins?
And I’m not innocent in this...I rated Hodgins pretty mediocrely too coming out of college, punishing him for his so-so Combine numbers, but with more time and study...I could see that I was wrong and instantly gave Hodgins respect when NYG gave him his shot, and he seized it. Comparing Harrison Jr. to Hodgins might not be the insult you think it might be/is. Maybe Harrison Jr. is just a ‘faster’ Hodgins-like WR prospect? But what if MHJ tests in the 4.5s for a 40-time, if he runs at all (Hodgins was a 4.61)? What if Hodgins’ solid 1.56 10-yard split, and nice (for his size) 4.12 shuttle and 7.01 three-cone at the Combine are similar or better than the similar-sized Harrison Jr.?
Just food for thought.
|
WR Score |
Draft Yr |
Last |
First |
College |
H |
H |
W |
Power Strngth Metric |
Speed Agility Metric |
Hands' Metric |
|
7.987 |
2024 |
Harrison |
Marvin |
Ohio State |
6 |
3.5 |
205 |
5.12 |
7.06 |
8.93 |
|
5.209 |
2020 |
Hodgins |
Isaiah |
Oregon St. |
6 |
3.5 |
210 |
3.63 |
3.72 |
8.68 |
|
7.769 |
2014 |
Adams |
Davante |
Fresno St |
6 |
0.7 |
212 |
9.41 |
5.71 |
8.98 |
|
5.801 |
2017 |
Patrick |
Tim |
Utah |
6 |
4.1 |
208 |
5.36 |
4.11 |
7.53 |
|
7.432 |
2020 |
Johnson |
Tyler |
Minnesota |
6 |
1.3 |
206 |
8.17 |
4.81 |
8.87 |
|
7.924 |
2013 |
Allen |
Keenan |
Cal |
6 |
2.0 |
206 |
4.20 |
5.17 |
11.63 |
|
7.126 |
2020 |
Lamb |
CeeDee |
Oklahoma |
6 |
1.5 |
198 |
5.82 |
7.85 |
9.10 |
*A score of 7.0+ is where we start to take a Big-WR prospect more seriously. A score of 8.50+ is where we see a stronger correlation of a Big-WR going on to become NFL good/great/elite. A score of 10.00+ is more rarefied air in our system and indicates a greater probability of becoming an elite NFL Big-WR.
All of the WR ratings are based on a 0–10 scale, but a player can score negative, or above a 10.0 in certain instances.
Overall WR score = A combination of several on-field performance measures, including refinement for strength of opponents faced, mixed with all the physical measurement metrics, and rated historically in our database.
“Power-Strength” = A combination of unique metrics surrounding physical size profiling, bench press strength, etc. High scorers here project to be more physical, better blockers, and less injury-prone.
“Speed-Agility” = A combination of unique metrics surrounding speed, agility, physical size, mixed with some on-field performance metrics. High scorers here project to have a better YAC and show characteristics to be used as deep threats/to create separation.
“Hands” = A combination of unique metrics surrounding on-field performance in college, considering the strength of opponents played. Furthermore, this data considers some physical profiling for hand size, etc. High scorers here have a better track record of college statistical performance. Everything combines to project catch-abilities for the next level.
2024 NFL Draft Outlook:
Harrison is likely going to be taken in the top 3 overall, no matter what...no worse than top 5. Too much hype, too much ‘name’. The NFL follows the script at the top/in the top 10, so no reason to deviate from that or outguess it on a super-hyped ‘name’.
If Harrison Jr. just stays away from the pre-Draft workouts, he’ll not lose this pre-Draft hype at all (follow the Bryce Young prospect-protection model). People will applaud MHJ for skipping pre-Draft things, saying/thinking: He’s so good, he deserves not to workout. With other prospects doing this the media/fans will whine about their lack of desire/competitiveness (like with the massive scouting miss by the NFL on 2023 OL Dawand Jones)...but not with Harrison Jr.! He won’t get the same critiques because he’s a made guy...his skids are greased for the NFL Draft.
NFL Outlook:
And Harrison Jr.’s skids are greased for the NFL...just like with Jerry Jeudy, another supposed-to-be elite WR prospect that was overrated from the jump. Like Jeudy, among other highly ranked prospects who fizzled, Harrison Jr. will be given a thousand chances/targets, have plays designed for him, will work with the 1st-team all the time from day one, and he’ll make numbers – because NFL teams will draft MHJ to be a star, and they’ll try and manifest it in their playbook, etc. Jeudy was a bad WR right away in the league, and most other WRs who showed what Jeudy was showing would’ve been benched and/or traded away with the way Jeudy played (poorly)...but JJ never was benched and continued to play and get targets and produce decent numbers because he was SUPPOSED to be great because of his pre-Draft hype, so the team is still thinking it’s a guarantee to happen any day now. Harrison Jr. will produce some numbers in the NFL because he’ll start day one and always start every game for at least the first 4 years of his NFL career/contract.
Harrison Jr. is a nice, solid WR to have on an NFL team. He won’t hurt a team...but he’s nowhere near the star they say, not right away (if ever) from what I have seen/what I take away from his tape. And when I wondered if I was the one who was crazy to be lukewarm on Harrison Jr. -- I then put on Malik Nabers’ tape to see his work again...and it comforted me. Harrison is nowhere near as good as Nabers...and I think that will manifest in the NFL, right away.
Worst case NFL projection/take away from my studies...I know Harrison Jr. is NOT the best WR prospect in this draft. What number/ranked prospect he will be (for us) is up for grabs...we got a long way to go for data gathering and re-study to find out. If the data from pre-Draft workouts comes in radically better (or worse) than our projections, we’ll reassess...as we always do. But my first stance on Marvin Harrison Jr. is – he’s OK, he’s good...he’s not a generational talent.
