When the Texans acquired Marvin Harrison Jr. from the Cardinals, they reunited the young receiver with his college quarterback, C.J. Stroud.<\/p>\n
With Harrison already set to make his debut with his new team when the Texans play the Jaguars on Sunday, the built-in chemistry he has with Stroud will likely be key for some early success.<\/p>\n
Stroud told reporters in his Wednesday press conference that he\u2019s happy to have Harrison.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s been saying how much of a good dude he is, how nice he\u2019s been,\u201d Stroud said, via transcript from the team. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have my guy back, and I\u2019m excited to be rolling with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stroud added that he\u2019s \u201calways known [Harrison] was special.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c[W]hen he came in, he was super ahead of his game, just really mature,\u201d Stroud said. \u201cHim and Emeka [Egbuka] were some of the most mature freshmen that I\u2019ve been around, and then just his work ethic, and it\u2019s the same thing now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stroud touted Harrison\u2019s route running as one of his top qualities.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gets open on time, I think he\u2019s a very quarterback friendly receiver,\u201d Stroud said. \u201cThe better you are with getting the ball at your hands on time, the better he is. I think that\u2019s why him and I had so much success because I\u2019m a pocket quarterback that likes to throw it to him on time. That\u2019s when he\u2019s at his best. That\u2019s one of the great things he does.\u201d<\/p>\n
While there is one public perception about Harrison based on his results with the Cardinals, Stroud said that he believes Harrison will be just fine with Houston.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody ever is a finished product,\u201d Stroud said. \u201cYou\u2019re always learning ways to get better. You\u2019re always learning ways to get better at what you\u2019re already good at. I think there are two different types of perspectives you can look from. You can look from the world\u2019s perspective of who people think you are or yourself. I think that\u2019s where I\u2019ve learned that it doesn\u2019t really matter what people say. They can\u2019t really stop or start what you have going on. Then you have your perspective of who you think you are, who you believe you can be. I think that\u2019s more important.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Marvin, he knows that. He\u2019s a heck of a player. I don\u2019t agree with some of the things that are being said about him. At the end of the day, that\u2019s what people who are on the outside are saying. I\u2019m a firm believer of really focus on what you can control and then whatever other people say or have their opinions, kudos to them. They have platforms and things that they can say on, but that doesn\u2019t really affect you unless you make it. I think he\u2019ll be fine. I try to just be [a resource] to him if I need to. He\u2019s a confident dude. He\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Texans acquired Marvin Harrison Jr. from the Cardinals, they reunited the young receiver with his college…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-883436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}