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Jake Ciely's Top 5 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets For Week 2 (Ep. 1693)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Join Joe Pisapia and Jake Ciely for their top five fantasy football waiver wire pickups ahead of NFL Week 2!

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0:05.1

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. It's me, Joey Pee, Joe Pizapia. And it's time to hit the WaverWire for week two, but we're going to hit it fast, and we're going to get out. And that's what this is all about today. That's right. WaiverWire on the go Express version. So get your pumpkin spice latte and get your athletics own Jake Sealy on the way out the door. Jake and I are going to go through some of the top five WaverWire pickups. And because, you know, we're just benevolent here. We're going to give you some extra bonus guys to think about as well. Jake Sealy, I know it's one of those weeks where, you know, you look up at the scoreboard week one, crazy things are always going on. But one of the things that always goes on is there's injuries and Xavier Worthy is going to be out for at least a short term we would imagine, or at least limited, even in the best case scenario. So as of recording this Monday morning, you have to look to Hollywood Brown. He is rostered in 31% of leagues right now on

0:54.9

Sleeper. He's coming off a game where he had 99 yards on 16 targets and 10 receptions. So

1:01.5

certainly the pivot point was very clear that Hollywood Brown was the next man up. It was. And I don't

1:07.4

know if this was Travis Gelsty getting upset that Taylor Swift was excited about Xavier.

1:11.3

Were they?

1:11.6

I've seen that meme.

1:12.6

You seen that? It is funny. Oh, yeah, you were excited about him. I'll show you. He saw him coming. Xavier didn't see Kelsey coming. I don't know if he assumed he was going to change routes, but Kelsey just bowled right through him. Well, you know what's funny, Jake? my daughter who plays football and she said, who do you think's wrong there? And I said, well,

1:29.8

who's been in the offense for a decade? Kelsey just bowled right through him. Well, you know what's funny, Jake? My daughter who plays football? And she said, who do you think's wrong there?

1:29.0

And I said, well, who's been in the offense for a decade? And she said, yeah, it's probably worthy. He's probably like somebody got crossed up. Who saw the other person? Worthy wasn't looking. But you can't slow down a guy who's 6-5, you know, 250. against the guy who, you know, he can't slow down.

1:44.6

And if you're, you're supposed to go underneath, you don't go underneath.

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Oh, you're trying to get it.

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Yeah, you're, 250 against the guy who, you know, he can't slow down. And if you're, you're supposed go underneath, you don't go underneath. Oh, you're trying to get whatever. I'm just saying, if you're standing on the tracks when the train's coming through, it's going to get ugly. And it did. Well, if we're talking about health, uh, I don't know that we can withstand much more health for Hollywood Brown, especially if he's going to be having 16 targets per week, but at least until Rishi Rice gets back or he blows his hamstring or his calf or whatever because he's Hollywood Brown. I hate to say that. But no, no, I joke and say that to say you have to get Hollywood Brown. If you need wide receiver health, you have to get him. If you had Xavier Worthy, you have to get him. He's like barely over 30% on sleeper. But all that being said is I think he's also potentially one of those best case scenario, Y receiver two, threes that you potentially immediately flip. Like I know a lot of people are like, oh, you just picked them off waivers. Of course you want to trade. I'm not going to give you anything for that. But if you are the most aggressive, don't go crazy. I wouldn't say spending 50% of your fab, because it is a ticking time bomb, both by his health and Rishie Rice coming back. But if you're aggressive enough and you happen to win them and you have depth, and maybe you wait one more week for another good game. But I'm just saying the point being here is when you do pick them up, you need them. Understand it's a limited value. So if you are in a league with some inexperienced people, try to flip them, even if it's a pick them up and flip them. Yeah, I would agree. That's a very wise sentiment there. Let's get to the next guy on our list here coming at number two, 34% rostered. And as Jake said, last week, we did a show. These are the guys to stash before week one where it's going to cost you nothing. You pick them up for $0 in your fab budget. And hopefully you listen to us. But if you didn't, and he's still floating out there, Cedric Tillman is a guy you need to pick up. For whatever reason, I don't know, Joe Flacco just doesn't like Jerry Judy, I guess. I don't know what's going on there.

3:24.6

But Cedric Tillman has a lot of talent.

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He averaged 10.4 yards per reception, 52 receiving yards on five catches and a tutty. And he looked good doing it, Jake, in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals. So again, we tried to get ahead of the curve last week. But if you didn't, there's still plenty of time because he's still available in almost 70% of leagues right now.

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Yeah, that's the crazy thing about it. I understand. You know, people are like, well, is Joe Flacka going to be the quarterback all year? What is the Brown's offense going to look like? Blah, blah, blah. The truth here is that forget all the other scenarios, just if, no matter who the quarterback is if we got to the end of the season, and and remember if you and I talked about this or one of the 18,000 podcasts you and I are on but the point is like I said if we got to the end of the year and Cedric Tillman had more fancy points than Jerry Judy would be shocked like we'd be falling out of her chairs it would be a surprise to a lot of people but it wouldn't be shocking think that's the difference here, and that's why we like Cedric Tillman, is there's more upside

4:17.3

on a per catch basis, too. Like, I do expect Judy to bounce back, but if you're talking about the upside any given week, I think Tillman's going to have the most on this team, especially if Flacco's not even going to be using Injoku as much as he was, which, by the way, if you need a

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tight end stash fan in, I'm not going to roll him out there in week two just yet, but if they're going to be using him on the underneath. But that's why I bring it up because Fanon was doing the whole concern that we've had for tight ends like with the Giants and Wondell Robinson and Theo Johnson or other tight ends like that where if they're Tyler Warren and Josh Downs, as we saw Warren kind of ruined downs with Daniel Jones, is that Fanon might ruin Jerry Judy because of what the usage is underneath and in their intermediate game. Tellman doesn't have to worry about that. I think Tillman could be a Y receiver for the entire year. To Jake's point, if you're in deeper leagues, Fanon is a stash for me. Just throwing that out there too.

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He looks like he could be a real deal. And that's what happens when you have kids who come to the NFL

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from small schools. Everyone goes, well, can you really play with this kind of competition? And then they show up and they play with that competition. Everyone goes, oh, wow, that's really interesting. he's wearing a full back number. What are you doing, dude? Dude, don't get me starting the numbers.

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It's still, you know, old man yelling at the sky still. I still hate it. When I see a wide

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receiver wearing the number four, just pisses and number. What are you doing, dude? Uh, dude, don't get me sorry on the numbers. It's still, I, you know, old man yelling at the sky still. I still hate it. I got, when I see a wide

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