For the third time in as many seasons, the Arizona Cardinals aren’t seeing high-level production out of former No. 4 overall pick Marvin Harrison Jr. — at least, through two weeks. Harrison, over the first two games of his 2026 season, has just one reception for 33 yards on four combined targets.

And with that reality, the noise has grown louder. Fans are frustrated to not see flashy numbers or highlight-reel plays. National media has already begun to circulate rumors of an unlikely trade for the 24-year-old wideout.

But inside the Cardinals’ facility in Tempe, it’s business as usual. There’s no concern about Harrison’s talent, effort or lack of statistical success — from Harrison himself, his coach and his teammates.

Cardinals not concerned with Marvin Harrison Jr.’s production

Harrison said, despite efforts to block out the noise, that he does see what’s being said about him. It’s nearly impossible not to.

“It’s the social media era. … I see everything,” Harrison said. “I’m just continuing [to] worry about my team and my process.”

The wideout categorized the reason for his low-range output as “a combination of a lot of things.”

“For my route tree, getting down the field, you need me to run a great route. You need Jacoby to make the right pass and make the right read. So I feel like it’s never one person’s fault for anybody’s success or lack thereof,” he said.

“If the defense is giving [you] a lot of attention, other people are getting open and other people have favorable matchups. … If someone’s getting a lot of attention, doesn’t mean you should force them the ball.”

Harrison said he’s sticking to his own process, rather than making changes to the way he approaches his game.

“Does your confidence come from results or does your confidence come from your process? I think for me it comes from my process. So my process isn’t going to change whether I get 0 catches or 10 catches,” he said.

“I’m going to still do the same thing week in and week out, Monday through Saturday to prepare myself for the game. So I think that’s how a lot of my confidence comes from. Obviously, you want to have more of an impact in the game, but I think the confidence really has to come from the preparation more than anything.”

And that’s what Harrison’s teammates and coaches have seen — the unchanging, consistent version of him that shows up to work day in and day out. They are not putting stock in the more negative external conversations.

“Nobody’s lost confidence in Marv,” said quarterback Jacoby Brissett. “The hard part as a young player is the noise from the outside. It’s telling you what they expect from you and things of that nature. Does Marv want the ball? Yes. Do we understand that he wants the ball? Yes. Is it only week two? Yes. It’s a lot of things that you try and emphasize that, hey, at some point, the tide will change.

“Is some of the noise justified? I don’t think so, personally. I mean, we just signed Mike [Wilson] for [$25 million] and nobody said anything about him having two catches [last week].”

Brissett reinforced that Harrison hasn’t changed, despite another tough start to a season. His method of attacking his day-to-day process remains the same.

“I saw him today and he’s on the jugs. … The foundation that [he’s] laying for [himself] is not changing based on the external gratification or whatever the noise is from the outside. And that’s what you want to see.”

Brissett said he’s had conversations with his teammate regarding potential frustration with a lack of targets. It’s not how Arizona’s signal-caller wants to see the box score filled out.

“I told him, I said, the frustration you have, I kept saying, I don’t want you to go out of the game with zero catches like that. That’s not it. That’s not fair to you. I take responsibility for that.

“He’s not just walking around here just smiling at me every day. That’s not it. I wouldn’t even want that, to be honest with you. But when you talk about his work ethic and you talk about him showing up and being engaged in the meetings and then going out on the field and giving 110 percent and being the Marv that we all know he is, just like that, that hasn’t changed,” Brissett said.

Head coach Mike LaFleur is more than aware of the noise. He, too, remains unconcerned with his player taking a turn for the worse.

“Marv seems like Marv, to me,” LaFleur said. “I’m not going to sit here and act like I don’t know the narrative going on. This is the league, and naturally stuff gets across my desk, but in between those walls, Marv is Marv. He’s attacking it every single day, like he always does, just like his teammates do. I appreciate the way he goes about his business.”

Some of that noise has grown louder as a result of precursory glances at Harrison’s tape. Fans and analysts online have posited that Harrison’s effort level, both in his release off the line of scrimmage and in run-blocking reps, has looked low.

Two days after defending Harrison’s effort off the snap, LaFleur praised his improvement in the run game.

“I think he’s been getting better and better,” LaFleur said. “I think he really embraced that challenge. It’s cool… [to] compliment him and him saying, ‘I want to be better than that.’ And that’s just his mindset.”

The NFL is a production league. But it’s also one where week-to-week occurrences drown out the previous weeks’ resume. Harrison is one big performance away from a quieter week, and one more lackluster box score from a louder one.