Our own Kevin Knight liked his athleticism<\/a>, coverage ability, and upside back in 2022 when he was entering the draft, but was not a fan of his run defense and spotty tackling. The athleticism and coverage ability is there, but Harris has not been able to deliver on his considerable promise to this point. He was decent in his very limited looks in 2025, however.<\/p>\nThe Falcons, who just rolled the dice on Divine Deablo next year betting his traits would allow him to excel in Jeff Ulbrich\u2019s defense, are undoubtedly making a similar bet with Harris. There\u2019s little question that Harris has not been as good thus far in his career as Deablo was with the Raiders, and he does not have the combination of length and instincts that made Deablo so good for the Falcons in 2025. But what Harris does bring to the table is youth, some real promise, and likely a very affordable contract, and even if he tops out as a useful reserve he\u2019ll prove to be an upgrade over what the Falcons got out of the likes of JD Bertrand in 2025. If he becomes more than that, awesome, but even as a backup he\u2019s an interesting addition.<\/p>\n
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Whether he will may depend on the opportunity available to him in 2026. Kaden Elliss has not been re-signed, while a restructured Troy Andersen is no lock to play and\/or play well this year given that injury continues to be his constant companion. If the Falcons don\u2019t make any big moves, we\u2019ll know what their expectations for Harris are.<\/p>\n
Give Harris a warm welcome, and let\u2019s hope he\u2019s a quality piece of a quality inside linebacker group in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons have been quite busy during the opening salvo of legal tampering, with most of their reported\/not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[223,1443,44455,12484,23383,11413,6710,9592,224,7,221,253,2368,41321,11418,11415,262,6,222,2661,11417],"class_list":["post-803499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-atlanta","tag-california","tag-cameron-thomas","tag-cameron-wolfe","tag-christian-harris","tag-david-onyemata","tag-dee-alford","tag-divine-deablo","tag-falcons","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-inglewood","tag-jd-bertrand","tag-kaden-elliss","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-nfl","tag-texans","tag-the-falcons","tag-troy-andersen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116202469265866576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803499","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=803499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}