ASU’s Reed Harris planting flag among nation’s top wide receivers early

Arizona State wide receiver Reed Harris has wasted no time claiming a spot among the best in the country at his position.

The Sun Devil had nine catches for 189 yards and two touchdowns in Saturday’s loss to Texas A&M. That brought his season total to 326 yards (fourth in nation) and four touchdowns (fifth). He is fifth with 146 yards after catch. He’s atop the Big 12 in all three categories.

through two weeks, arizona state wr reed harris is no. 2 at his position nationwide on pff’s grades behind only malachi toney.

harris has 326 receiving yards (fourth in nation) and four touchdown catches (fifth), and his 146 yards after the catch rank third. pic.twitter.com/t3tPzVrdVN

— Damon Allred (@iamdamonallred) September 13, 2026

Harris is PFF’s second-highest graded wide receiver so far behind only Miami star Malachi Toney.

He has hauled in 15 of his 18 targets for an 83.3% completion rate that only 15 players can say they’re above (among 94 wideouts with at least 10 targets).

Harris kept ASU in the game in College Station through three quarters, as his second touchdown of the day — a 58-yard catch-and-run — pulled the Sun Devils within four points with 3:39 remaining in the third quarter.

“We had a simple game plan for the most part,” Harris told reporters postgame. “We practiced it throughout the week. It was basically the same looks that we got all week from the scout team. For the most part, we went out and executed. Just looking at the first half, it was pretty good for the most part. But there’s always things that we can improve on and that’s what we’re going to look at.”

The game unraveled in the fourth quarter amid turnovers on three consecutive possessions — two of which were returned for touchdowns — but Harris’s growing connection with quarterback Cutter Boley was something the Sun Devils could hang their hat on going forward from the loss.

His combination of a massive frame at 6-foot-5 and 220 pounds with elite speed (The Athletic’s Dane Brugler citing “legit 4.4 speed”) is already proving to be an impossible task for opposing defenses to handle, even a stout one like Texas A&M.

He will burst onto NFL draft boards as a result, with Brugler suggesting ASU has “another in the pipeline” after producing first-round wide receiver Jordyn Tyson last year.

“He played great. Won one-on-ones,” ASU head coach Kenny Dillingham told reporters. “Thought he played well. I’m impressed by him. Great kid, great person.”

The Boston College transfer is coming off 673 receiving yards last season, and he’s already about halfway to eclipsing the mark in one-sixth of the games. His four touchdowns are one away from his best in a season.

After his dominant game against a Texas A&M defense that ranks 17th out of 67 Power Four teams in coverage defense, per PFF, Harris will face a Kansas unit that’s ranked sixth worst.

“This ain’t no vacation. We got to get better,” Harris said. “We can’t treat this like we’re just going to have fun in London. We got to lock in and then go drop the hammer on Kansas.”

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