Washington Football Team: Kelvin Harmon an underrated “addition”
A lot has changed since Kelvin Harmon was last able to suit up for the Washington Football Team in a regular season game. Harmon suffered a torn ACL just about a year ago after a promising rookie campaign.
The torn ACL came at a horrible time for both Harmon and the Washington Football Team, which really needed any sort of presence at wide receiver to go along with Terry McLaurin last year. His absence paved the way for some other players like Cam Sims to step up, step in, and earn roles on the team going forward.
Harmon caught 30 passes for 365 yards in his rookie season in which he appeared in all 16 games with eight starts. He played just over half of the offensive snaps for Washington in the 2019 season and hopes were high for year two.
Harmon sort of inexplicably took a free fall down the draft board in 2019 following two straight 1,000-yard seasons at North Carolina State with 11 touchdowns. He didn’t have the greatest performance ever at the Scouting Combine, but it was clear based on the tape that Harmon could play.
Washington landed him in the sixth round (206th overall) of the 2019 NFL Draft and found themselves a really nice bargain. Heading into his second season, Harmon was expected to have an expanded role and unfortunately, those wheels never got off the ground.
Washington Football Team: Future for Kelvin Harmon
Kelvin Harmon back at practice. Missed all of last season with a knee injury pic.twitter.com/bWlxxFpdfJ
— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) May 25, 2021
Although Harmon has now returned to the football field, he returns with a ton of competition putting his roster spot in jeopardy.
The Washington Football Team went out in free agency and added Curtis Samuel from the Carolina Panthers as well as Adam Humphries from the Tennessee Titans. They drafted both Dyami Brown (third round) and Dax Milne (seventh round).
The emergence of Cam Sims last season along with the continued development of 2020 fourth-round pick means that if Harmon is going to make an impact in 2021, he’s going to have some stiff competition to beat out.
If Washington is going to keep just six receivers on their final 53-man roster, a healthy Harmon is going to make everyone that much better whether he makes the team or not.
Hopefully, for his sake, he can prove himself worthy of one of those spots and give the Washington Football Team some really good depth at the position in 2021, something they haven’t had in quite a long time.