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Marvin Harrison Jr. Trending Toward Playing Sunday Against Falcons

Wide receiver has missed two games with heel injury

Wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. returned to practice this week after missing two games with a heel injury.
Wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. returned to practice this week after missing two games with a heel injury.

Marvin Harrison Jr. is officially questionable for the Cardinals' game against the Falcons in Arizona's home finale, but the second-year wide receiver sounded confident he will be on the field after missing two games with a heel injury.

"Good enough to go," Harrison said Friday after practice. "We'll see Sunday."

Of Harrison's work for the week prior to Friday's practice, coach Jonathan Gannon said "I thought he looked pretty good."

The heel injury wasn't a problem running, but any deceleration was an issue, Harrison said. Harrison also missed two games with appendicitis and left the game against the Colts with a concussion.

"It's been tough," Harrison said. "The whole year has been tough, honestly. What we wanted it to be going into the year and where it is now, it's not what we expected. The whole year has been tough, but you keep going one day at a time and stick to your process."

This season, Harrison has 40 receptions for 594 yards and four touchdowns in 10 games.

In Harrison's absences, Michael Wilson has shined as the top wide receiver, making 41 catches for 499 yards and three touchdowns in those four games. And tight end Trey McBride has been dominant of late and is coming off a game in Houston in which he tied his career high in catches (12) and set a career high in yards (134), along with two touchdowns.

Now the Atlanta defense will likely have to contend with Harrison as well. Harrison had six catches for 69 yards in the Tampa game in Week 13 before the heel injury. That was post-appendix surgery, and Harrison acknowledged he was anxious to get back on the field after an unprecedented sidelining for him.

"Missing two games (then) I never really had missed playing football, when something like that is taken away from you you want to get back out there and play," Harrison said. "Excited, angry, all of the above."

That figures to be the mindset against the Falcons as well.

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