Marvin Harrison Jr. had already been ruled out for Sunday’s season finale against the Rams. But the Cardinals have now made a move to free Harrison’s roster spot.
Arizona has placed Harrison on injured reserve, the team announced on Friday.
Harrison has been dealing with a heel injury on one leg for several weeks then was hobbled by a foot injury by the other. Darren Urban of the team’s website notes Harrison was having clear issues just walking in the locker room earlier this week.
“I thought he did some good things [this season],” head coach Jonathan Gannon said, via Urban. “We moved him around the formation. He scored points for us. He got open, caught it. I don’t think he’s hit his ceiling, and I look forward to the future with that.”
Harrison ends his second season having caught 41 passes for 608 yards with four touchdowns in 12 games with 10 starts. He had 62 receptions for 885 yards with eight TDs in 17 games as a rookie in 2024.
Though they can be just the No. 5 or No. 6 seed in the NFC, the Rams are planning to play their starters against the Cardinals on Sunday afternoon.
Receiver Davante Adams could be among those starters on the field, as he’s one of several players Los Angeles will list as questionable.
Via multiple reporters, head coach Sean McVay said on Friday that Adams, running back Kyren Williams, running back Blake Corum, left tackle Alaric Jackson, and linebacker Omar Speights are all questionable.
Adams has not played since aggravating his already-injured hamstring in the Rams’ Dec. 14 victory over the Lions. Adams nevertheless leads the league with 14 touchdown receptions. He’s caught a total of 60 passes for 789 yards in 14 games this year.
Williams and Corum are both dealing with ankle injuries. Jackson has a knee injury. Speights also has an ankle injury.
Additionally, McVay noted tight end Tyler Higbee is set to be activated off of injured reserve after being sidelined since mid-November with an ankle injury. The veteran TE has 20 catches for 190 yards with two touchdowns in 2025.
L.A. has lost its last two games in disappointing fashion after moving to 11-3 with a Week 15 win over Detroit.
Rams wide receiver Davante Adams returned to practice on Thursday, getting in limited work. He is not expected to play in Week 18 as he works his way back from a hamstring injury.
“It’s more of just to make sure that we’re able to get him a full workload,” coach Sean McVay said Wednesday, via Stu Jackson of the team website. “He’s going to be able to do some different things in a more controlled setting, but just with the position he plays, being able to open up, want to make sure that we’re getting everything ready to roll and being smart with him.”
Adams has missed two games since aggravating the injury in the Week 15 win over the Lions.
He has 60 receptions for 789 yards and a league-best 14 touchdowns this season.
The Rams opened the 21-day practice window for safety Quentin Lake (elbow). Lake hasn’t played since Week 11 but could return for the postseason.
Wide receiver Xavier Smith (chest) was a full participant a day after a limited session.
The rest of the team’s report remained the same.
Running back Blake Corum (ankle), offensive lineman Kevin Dotson (ankle) and cornerback Josh Wallace (ankle) sat out practice again on Thursday.
Defensive end Braden Fiske (ankle), left tackle Alric Jackson (knee), safety Jaylen McCollough (hip), inside linebacker Omar Speights (ankle) and running back Kyren Williams (ankle) remained limited.
Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr.'s second NFL season is over.
Head coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters on Wednesday that Harrison will not play against the Rans in Sunday’s regular season finale. It will be the fifth game that Harrison misses this season.
Harrison missed two games after having an appendectomy and two more with a heel injury. He returned to play in Weeks 15 and 16, but was limited to 19 games by the heel last week.
The 2024 first-round pick had 41 catches for 608 yards and four touchdowns this season. Injuries contributed to that, but his production even when healthy hasn’t been where most expected it to be based on how productive he was at Ohio State.
Harrison’s bid to change that seems likely to unfold with a new quarterback next season, but any word on who that might be will have to wait until the offseason is officially underway in Arizona.
Cardinals defensive lineman Calais Campbell said in August that he’d “be very surprised” if the 2025 wasn’t his final season in the NFL, but he isn’t making any announcements ahead of the final game of the regular season.
Campbell’s 18th season will end with Sunday’s game against the Rams, but he isn’t ruling out a 19th year at this point. He said he wants to take some time after the season to decompress and that he doesn’t “know if I’m going to retire or not because I don’t know how my body is going to feel” after that process.
“The last few years I’ve been through this process I’ve known pretty quickly that I’ve wanted to play again,” Campbell said, via the team’s website. “It didn’t take me that long — within a month or so, I knew I wanted to play football again. We’ll see. I hope to know quickly if I don’t want to play football again. The biggest thing is if I do want to play football again, I give myself the opportunities to play football again. I try to always sign my work and play at a level that they want me back. Even if I decide not to play again, I want to have the ability to say no, rather than them saying, ‘See you later.’”
Campbell spent his first nine NFL seasons with the Cardinals and returned to the team on a one-year deal this year. He has started every game and recorded 41 tackles and 6.5 sacks in his second Arizona stint. That production should create interest from the Cardinals and/or others and it doesn’t sound like it will be long before Campbell reveals whether he’ll be back on the field in 2026.
