Cardinals Ship Marvin Harrison Jr. to Texans for Pennies on the Dollar
Ian Rapoport and Adam Schefter reported the blockbuster trade.
The just hit the eject button on Marvin Harrison Jr., and the return is so light it feels like a typo. According to Ian Rapoport and Adam Schefter, Arizona is shipping Harrison and a seventh-round pick to the Houston Texans for a second-rounder and a sixth-rounder.
Read that again. A second-round pick for one of the most hyped wide receiver prospects of the decade. This is the kind of trade you veto in your fantasy league because you assume someone's account got hacked.
For Houston, this is an absolute masterclass in roster building. The Texans just finished dismantling the Tennessee Titans 26-3 this afternoon, and apparently decided their reward should be adding a blue-chip weapon to an already loaded offense.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals are scheduled to kick off against the tonight, and their locker room has to be wondering what exactly the front office is doing. You do not draft a guy like Harrison just to flip him for a day-two dart throw before his rookie contract even gets interesting.
If you are holding any Texans futures tickets, this is the exact kind of all-in move you want to see. Houston is treating their contention window like it is wide open, while is apparently content to keep rebuilding until the end of time.
We will see how the look on the field against without their star receiver, but the real show is going to be in Houston. The Texans just put the rest of the AFC on notice, and all it cost them was a second-round pick.