On the surface, Josh Gordon’s NFL reinstatement on Friday doesn’t seem like it would benefit N’Keal Harry. Both men play wide receiver, both are most dangerous along the sidelines as vertical, field-stretching threats, and both have similar physical compositions (Gordon is 6’3 and 225 lbs, Harry is 6’4 and 225 lbs).
Upon deeper analysis though, Gordon’s return might provide Harry just the kind of mentorship he needs in learning to maximize his own gifts and abilities.
To be clear – and this is meant not to disparage Gordon – that mentorship doesn’t mean that Harry should see Gordon as a role model to look up to or try and emulate from a character perspective.