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There's a rotational angle from the backside that shows the ball behind Harmon as he moves past Kearse. You'll have to forgive me as I'm not sure where it is, but I have seen it.The only angle that you should be watching it from is the one where it played live - the rest give terrible depth perception.
OK, look, I hate to go crazy over this thing, but I got nothing better to do, so here:
1) Harmon coming in pretty much horizontally, no real chance to make the play here yet.
2) But wait, look the ball, instinct: make a play, Harmon quickly changes his angle of approach.
3) Harmon now positions himself to go for the ball.
4) Takes another step laterally instead and leaps horizontally out of bounds to safety
Clearly, this is a bang-bang play here. Again, I don't think this is some routine play. But his initial instinct was to go for the ball when he saw it tipped. Look, this is just my take on it - I would love to defer to someone who plays the game. Truly, I'm more curious than anything else.
EDIT: Harmon's own quote below seems to confirm this transpired. What instinct he had to go for the ball was stopped as he thought the play was dead so took himself out of play.
I don't disagree with the second portion of your comment. The moment he left the ground, his play on the ball, however small, was over.