Marvin Harrison Jr. Updates Injury Status, Cardinals WR Says He Couldn't 'Catch a Break Last Year'

Marvin Harrison Jr. is ready to put an injury riddled 2025 campaign in the rearview mirror.

"I don't think it's going to linger into next season, for sure," the Arizona Cardinals wide receiver said after appendicitis, two heel injuries and a concussion limited him to 12 games in 2025, per ESPN's Josh Weinfuss.

"The thing with your feet, you use them all the time. That makes the process take probably a little longer than maybe usually.

"But, obviously, it's definitely nothing that prevents me from anything at the moment. I go 100%. I'm still out there doing everything I normally would do, but yeah, it's just like an ongoing process for sure."

Harrison first left Arizona's Week 6 loss to the Indianapolis Colts with a concussion and was hospitalized with appendicitis after a Week 10 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. From there, he suffered a heel injury during a Week 13 return, missed two games and then injured his other heel in Week 17.

"Couldn't really catch a break last year, it kind of felt like," he said. "But that's life. I got to keep moving."

It was something he wasn't accustomed to, as he played all 17 games as a rookie in 2024 and didn't miss significant time during his collegiate career at Ohio State.

"So, staying on the sideline, I mean, that definitely sucked for almost half the year basically," Harrison said. "So I wouldn't say light a fire, it just makes you appreciate the game more. You want to be out there, you want to be with your teammates, want to compete, you want to win, but I definitely learned a lot from not being able to play."

This season figures to be an important one for Harrison.

After all, the Cardinals made him one of their franchise building blocks when they selected him with the No. 4 overall pick of the 2024 NFL draft. He seemed well on his way to an impressive career when he tallied 62 catches for 885 yards and eight touchdowns as a rookie, but the injuries prevented him from building on that in his second season.

He finished the 2025 campaign with 41 catches for 608 yards and four touchdowns, which was solid but nowhere near the types of numbers Arizona surely envisioned when it selected him with a top-five pick.

Staying healthy in 2026 would help him take a third-year leap the franchise needs to compete in a daunting NFC West, and Harrison doesn't seem to think the injury concerns from last year will be an issue by September.