The Buffalo Bills have been identified as the leading trade destination for Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. as questions grow about the former first-round pick’s role in a rebuilt Arizona offense.
Bleacher Report’s Moe Moton ranked Buffalo first among realistic landing spots for Harrison if the Cardinals decide to move him before the Nov. 10 trade deadline. Moton pointed to general manager Brandon Beane’s willingness to spend and the team’s ability to control Harrison’s contract.
“(GM) Brandon Beane may be willing to offer the best trade package for Harrison, a 24-year-old receiver who hasn’t reached his peak,” Moton wrote. “The Bills can exercise the fifth-year option on his rookie deal to keep him under team control for two more years while they figure out where he fits in their offense. Unless Keon Coleman breaks out this year, Harrison can be the new featured target on the perimeter opposite Moore, with Shakir in the slot. It would be a well-rounded group of receivers with Harrison as the potential long-term centerpiece.”
Buffalo already remade its receiver room this year. In March, Beane sent a 2026 second-round pick to Chicago for D.J. Moore and a 2026 fifth-round selection.
Moore, who turned 29 in April, posted career lows of 50 catches and 682 yards last season. The current group also includes Keon Coleman, Khalil Shakir, Joshua Palmer and rookie Skyler Bell.
Harrison has barely factored into Arizona’s passing game through two weeks. He has one catch for 33 yards on four targets. He was targeted once and finished without a reception in a 31-7 loss to Seattle in Week 2 after a 33-yard grab in the opener.
Advanced tracking underscores how far he has slipped in the pecking order. Among 103 wide receivers who have run at least 25 routes, Harrison ranks 100th in target rate at 6.5 percent and 92nd in yards per route run at 0.52, according to TruMedia data cited by CBS Sports. His average depth of target remains high, but volume has vanished.
ESPN’s Dan Graziano reported that executives around the league are already asking whether Arizona will shop the 2024 No. 4 overall pick. Harrison becomes eligible for an extension after this season. His 2027 cap figure is listed at about $11.25 million, and the fifth-year option for 2028 carries a guaranteed value of roughly $18.97 million.
Those numbers look expensive if his usage stays this low.
As a rookie in 2024, Harrison caught 62 passes for 885 yards and eight touchdowns. He did it on 116 targets across 17 games, a heavy workload that produced a modest 7.6 yards per target.
Arizona went 8-9 that season. The Cardinals collapsed to 3-14 in 2025. Harrison played 12 games, finishing with 41 receptions for 608 yards and four touchdowns on 73 targets. Injuries piled up: a concussion in Week 6, an appendectomy that cost him two games, a heel injury in Week 13 and a foot injury in Week 17 that ended with a season-ending injured-reserve designation.
Through 29 career games before this season, Harrison had 103 catches for 1,493 yards and 12 touchdowns. Adding the first two weeks of 2026 brings those totals to 104 receptions, 1,526 yards and 12 scores in 31 games.
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Ohio State product arrived with rare pedigree. He is the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison.
Harrison has said he hears the outside noise.
“It’s the social media era,” Harrison said. “You see everything. I’m not going to sit here and say I don’t see nothing. You get told to block out the noise and not pay attention to it. That’s part of it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I’m just going to continue to worry about my team, my process.”
Buffalo is 2-0 and already possesses one of the league’s most explosive quarterbacks in Josh Allen. Adding a still-young perimeter threat would give Allen another downfield option next to Moore while Shakir works inside. Whether Beane would part with the draft capital Arizona would demand remains an open question.
The Cardinals have signed Michael Wilson to a three-year, $75 million extension and continue to feature All-Pro tight end Trey McBride, leaving Harrison on the outside of the new scheme under first-year coach Mike LaFleur.
Any deal would likely be framed as a change-of-scenery bet rather than a finished product. Harrison has two years of team control remaining if a new club picks up the fifth-year option. That window is what makes Buffalo, and a handful of other contenders, keep watching the situation through the next six weeks.
