{"id":268724,"date":"2025-08-07T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/268724\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:11:16","slug":"marvin-harrison-jr-shines-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/268724\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Harrison Jr. shines again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cardinals offensive coordinator on approach for 1st preseason game<\/p>\n

Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinator Drew Petzing spoke about the plan for their first preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n

Marvin Harrison Jr. continued building his summer highlight reel in the Arizona Cardinals<\/a>\u2019 penultimate practice of training camp.<\/p>\n

His best play came in one-on-one drills. Lined up against Garrett Williams \u2014 the Cardinals’ best cornerback \u2014 Harrison got a step of separation on a go route. He then tracked a slightly underthrown ball from Kyler Murray over his right shoulder, adjusting his body to make the touchdown catch.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t Harrison\u2019s only bright moment. Earlier in that same drill, he ran a nice short-yardage comeback route against Max Melton, creating enough separation for an easy pitch and catch.<\/p>\n

In 11-on-11 work, the Cardinals mostly ran their first-team offense against the backups, so Harrison had easier matchups than he has for most of camp. He took full advantage of the lesser competition, hauling in four catches on five targets. His best play of the session was an out route for an intermediate gain against Kei\u2019Trel Clark.<\/p>\n

Throughout the afternoon, he showed no rust from missing three days of practice last week.<\/p>\n

Here are some other observations from Day 11 of Cardinals camp:<\/p>\n

Michael Wilson returns to practice<\/p>\n

Wilson, the Cardinals’ No. 2 wide receiver, returned to the practice field for the first time since suffering a concussion on a collision with Budda Baker on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n

Wilson did not participate in drills against live defense, but he did go through individual work while wearing a yellow non-contact jersey. His availability for the Cardinals\u2019 preseason opener against the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> on Saturday, Aug. 9, is unclear.<\/p>\n

For the most part, Wilson has had a quiet camp. In the first four 11-on-11 sessions of camp, he saw just two total targets. He did have a big day before suffering his concussion, though, seeing five balls come his way in that session.<\/p>\n

Wilson has finished with 565 and 548 yards, respectively, in his first two NFL seasons.<\/p>\n

Kyler Murray\u2019s inconsistencies continue<\/p>\n

Training camp has been a mixed bag for Murray. As usual, he\u2019s made some impressive throws, especially over the middle of the field. But he\u2019s also struggled downfield at times.<\/p>\n

Aug. 6 was no exception. Two of Murray\u2019s first three passes were underthrown deep balls. One of them, an attempted go route to Harrison, was nearly intercepted. It would have been Murray\u2019s fourth interception in 11-on-11 work since pads went on last week.<\/p>\n

Murray, though, also showed some of his tantalizing ability. Early in practice, he hit Zay Jones with a perfect back-shoulder pass deep downfield \u2014 the type of connection the Cardinals will aim to unlock more often this season.<\/p>\n

Rookie Denzel Burke impressing<\/p>\n

Denzel Burke, the Cardinals’ fifth-round pick, saw a few snaps with the first team defense. It was the first time he had appeared with that unit in training camp.<\/p>\n

While the majority of his work was still with the second team, it\u2019s not a surprise to see him moving up the depth chart. He has made a handful of nice pass breakups in both team work and individual drills. And last week, defensive coordinator Nick Rallis went out of his way to praise the rookie.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth Will (Johnson) and Denzel, for being rookie corners, they don\u2019t feel like it,\u201d Rallis said. \u201c\u2026 They\u2019re putting in the work to get to that point, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s smooth for them right now. You don\u2019t see a lot of mental mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the season begins, Burke will likely not see much work. Johnson, Melton and Williams are all entrenched atop the depth chart. But after injuries to Sean Murphy-Bunting and Starling Thomas V, the Cardinals’ depth at cornerback is mostly unproven. Burke\u2019s growth can help lessen that concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardinals offensive coordinator on approach for 1st preseason game Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinator Drew Petzing spoke about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[247,265,375,390,2604,1838,8967,1238,1327,346,739,7,2933,8288,5921,20842,1070,805,110,4826,4827,7992,7994,6196,9599,10306,6126,11369,2488,248,267,88,6,35196,245,537,530,9,266,607,1434],"class_list":{"0":"post-268724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-baker","14":"tag-budda","15":"tag-budda-baker","16":"tag-cardinals","17":"tag-chiefs","18":"tag-city","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-garrett","21":"tag-garrett-williams","22":"tag-harrison","23":"tag-hub","24":"tag-jr","25":"tag-kansas","26":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","27":"tag-kyler","28":"tag-kyler-murray","29":"tag-marvin","30":"tag-marvin-harrison","31":"tag-max","32":"tag-max-melton","33":"tag-melton","34":"tag-michael","35":"tag-michael-wilson","36":"tag-murray","37":"tag-national","38":"tag-national-sports","39":"tag-news","40":"tag-nfl","41":"tag-nfl-hub","42":"tag-overall","43":"tag-overall-positive","44":"tag-positive","45":"tag-sports","46":"tag-sports-news","47":"tag-williams","48":"tag-wilson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114986948292346170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268724","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=268724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}