Wide Receiver · Arizona Cardinals

Marvin Harrison Jr.

No. 18 · 3rd season

Everyone ranked the Ohio State receivers — and Harrison Jr. landed last

There is an awkward thing that happens when your draft class includes too much of a good thing. Marvin Harrison Jr. came into the league as part of a rare wave — multiple wide receivers from the same college program, all taken in the first round of the same draft. That is the kind of thing that gets written about for years.

Harrison Jr. was the son of a Hall of Famer, a consensus top talent coming out of college, and a first-round pick of the Arizona Cardinals. By any measure, that is a remarkable place to be.

And yet. At least one NFL analyst has put Harrison Jr. at the bottom of that Ohio State group — the last among the first-rounders when the receivers are stacked up against each other. Not cut, not struggling, just… ranked last among a very good group.

That is a strange kind of pressure. It does not mean he is failing. It means the bar around him is unusually high, and someone noticed the gap. For a player carrying a famous last name and first-round expectations, being the least of an extraordinary group is its own kind of story.

The 2025 season will tell us whether that ranking was a reasonable read or the one analysts will quietly delete.

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