Xavier Weaver<\/a>, who went from 169 pounds to 185 pounds.<\/p>\n“When I had that (shoulder) surgery, I lost a lot of weight,” the wide receiver said. “Knowing that we play in a physical sport with a lot of grown men, I know I had to put on weight. I really had no option, no choice.”<\/p>\n
That 16-pound difference, similar to Harrison, hasn’t impacted Weaver’s speed. His quickness was put to the test in the 20-17 preseason victory over the Chiefs on Saturday. During the Cardinals’ 79-yard drive to close out the first half, Weaver had a 13-yard catch, drew a 24-yard pass interference call, and then finished with a contested one-yard touchdown reception.<\/p>\n
“I feel (defensive backs) panicking sometimes when they got to be in a certain spot,” Weaver said. “With the speed that we bring on offense, it definitely brings something different to the defense with different looks and stuff like that, so I definitely see certain people panic to try and get to a certain position.”<\/p>\n
Deep threats like Weaver can be a matchup nightmare for cornerbacks. Coach Jonathan Gannon, a defensive backs coach by trade, noted secondaries play differently when they are “fearful of a guy running by you and hitting a home run.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot has been made about Marvin Harrison Jr.’s offseason body transformation. The first-rounder went from 209 pounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,53951,2604,1327,1051,7,1053,1052,88,6,12770,1252],"class_list":{"0":"post-280550","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-cardinals-at-denver-broncos-2025-pre-2","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-featured-articles","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-home-page-news-headlines","16":"tag-mega-feed","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-xavier-weaver","20":"tag-zach-gershman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115012374252907524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280550","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=280550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}