It seems that wherever New York Jets Wide Receiver Percy Harvin goes, plenty\u00a0of question-marks\u00a0are bound\u00a0to follow.\u00a0 Harvin, a six-year player out of the University of Florida was drafted in the first round of the 2009 draft.\u00a0 An immensely talented athlete with elite playmaking ability who lasted until the 22nd pick\u00a0 when the Minnesota Vikings pounced on the\u00a0speedster.\u00a0 Pundits questioned whether or not Harvin had a true position in the NFL and wondered what his role may be once selected.\u00a0 Was he a receiver or a running back?\u00a0 Would he even be that, or would he be restricted to special-teams as a return man?\u00a0 Could he stay healthy enough to do any of those?<\/p>\n
Upon his arrival in Minnesota, the Vikings answered the positional question by making Harvin a receiver out of the gate.\u00a0 Due to his skill set and versatility, he was used as a running back on occasion, but Percy’s primary responsibility was catching passes and he excelled early on.\u00a0 As a rookie, Harvin pulled in 60\u00a0balls for \u00a0790 yards and 6 touchdowns.\u00a0 An impressive stat line for a\u00a0young player\u00a0thought to be without a position.\u00a0 Over the course of the next two seasons, Harvin would\u00a0haul in 158 passes for 1,835 yards\u00a0and 11 touchdowns, while missing only three games.\u00a0 It appeared at the time that the receiver had put to bed any of the\u00a0concerns that plagued him early in his career, but by\u00a0season four in Minnesota, everything changed.<\/p>\n
Harvin would miss seven games due to an ankle injury that landed him on injured reserve during the 2012 campaign.\u00a0 Despite having missed very little game action up to that point, the Vikings were ready to\u00a0move\u00a0Harvin as the legitimacy of some of his previously reported injuries became a concern.\u00a0 Despite often\u00a0being ready on game day during the 2010 season for example, Harvin reportedly missed nearly forty practices<\/a>, and 2 pre-season games to go along with the two regular season games he didn’t dress for.\u00a0\u00a0On\u00a0several occasions his\u00a0reasons for sitting out were rumored to be questionable to some<\/a>\u00a0members of the organization.\u00a0 While the Vikings never publicly criticized Harvin for the\u00a0amount of\u00a0 time he missed, the fact that they eventually traded<\/a>\u00a0the productive first-round pick to the Seattle Seahawks for multiple draft picks only supported the theory.<\/p>\n Harvin’s stay in Seattle was short-lived however as the Seahawks would send him packing at the mid-way point this past season.\u00a0He missed all but one game in his first season with the Seahawks, and had managed a\u00a0paltry 22\u00a0catches for 133 yards and no touchdowns\u00a0in five games in his time with the Seahawks in 2014.\u00a0 That’s when John Idzik and the Jets made a\u00a0move\u00a0for the struggling playmaker.\u00a0 The Jets acquired Harvin for a conditional draft pick in hopes of reviving a stagnant offense and the results were mixed, but encouraging nonetheless.<\/p>\n In his first game as\u00a0a Jet, Harvin had little impact as he caught\u00a03 passes for\u00a022 yards and rushed for 28 more on four carries as a struggling Geno Smith was replaced<\/a> early on by veteran QB Michael Vick.\u00a0\u00a0Vick’s first start would come the following week when Harvin posted the first 100 yard receiving game of 2014 for the Jets as he managed 11 catches for 129 yards.\u00a0 Another 88 yards on kickoff return and\u00a08 yards rushing gave him 225 all-purpose yards on the day.\u00a0 In\u00a0 that second game as a Jet, Harvin showed fans why the organization went out and made a move to add him as a weapon on offense.\u00a0 Harvin would top the 100-yard mark just one more time, (124 yds in wk 14 vs. Minnesota) but inconsistent quarterback play undoubtedly limited his production.\u00a0 Even still, he was able to show the difference he can make for the Jets on offense\u00a0when given the opportunity.<\/p>\n Despite the fact that Harvin fills a long-standing void on offense for the Jets, uncertainty still lingers.\u00a0 As desperate as the Jets have been to feature a player of Harvin’s caliber for over a decade, his hefty price tag of roughly $10 million per season might be more than the Jets are willing to pay.\u00a0Even having displayed game-breaking ability in his short time in New York, Harvin did struggle to stay on the field\u00a0at times\u00a0as injuries continue to have an impact on his production.\u00a0 The Jets can cut Harvin this off-season with no salary cap ramifications, then possibly try to re-sign him after allowing him to test the\u00a0 market.\u00a0 Should they take that approach,\u00a0\u00a0they risk losing his services and creating yet another hole on\u00a0the roster, something they can ill afford at this point.\u00a0The ideal scenario for the Jets would be to convince Harvin to re-negotiate his current contract<\/a> down to a more cap-friendly number, but of course no moves will be made in the immediate future as the Jets continue their search for a new Head Coach and General Manger.\u00a0 Once on board, Jets fans will find out if the uncertainty around Harvin can finally be resolved, at least for now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems that wherever New York Jets Wide Receiver Percy Harvin goes, plenty\u00a0of question-marks\u00a0are bound\u00a0to follow.\u00a0 Harvin, a six-year player out 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