{"id":122781,"date":"2025-06-12T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122781\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:19:10","slug":"kyler-murray-thought-bulked-up-marvin-harrison-jr-was-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122781\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyler Murray thought bulked-up Marvin Harrison Jr. was AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE \u2014 Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr.\u2019s Year 2 transformation continues to be a main talking point this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AZCardinals\/status\/1932211355303743721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">media day photo<\/a> highlighting his weight gain was the latest example, so much so that teammate Kyler Murray was questioning its authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was AI and the pictures were fake,\u201d Murray said while cracking a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarv\u2019s been in (the training facility) every day since the season ended. It doesn\u2019t surprise me. He loves the game. The issue might be he\u2019s getting too damn big.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What did Cardinals QB Kyler Murray think about WR Marvin Harrison Jr.\u2019s noticeable transformation this offseason?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was AI.\u201d \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nIjsZmVxBq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nIjsZmVxBq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyler Drake (@Tdrake4sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\/status\/1932508223388725600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marvin Harrison Jr. eyeing Year 2 leap beyond the weight gain<\/p>\n<p>The wide receiver clearly hit the weight room hard this offseason after pacing the team with eight receiving touchdowns as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the scores, his rookie year fell short of expectations behind 62 catches and 885 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it\u2019s been about growing <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/marvin-harrison-sb\/3584465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">both his muscle mass and connection with Murray<\/a> and the rest of his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sky\u2019s a limit. This guy\u2019s a freak athlete and does everything the right way,\u201d tight end Trey McBride said during last week\u2019s OTAs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe comes in, he works hard, stays about his business and is just a tremendous person, athlete, all the above. I\u2019m excited to see where he can take his game this this next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harrison is joined in the wide receivers room by Michael Wilson, Greg Dortch and Zay Jones and newcomers Quez Watkins and Simi Fehoko, among others.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Tdrake4sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE \u2014 Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr.\u2019s Year 2 transformation continues to be a main talking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,1632,2604,1327,7,1631,6,1630],"class_list":{"0":"post-122781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114667766733811407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}