Week 2 Waivers Q&A: Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Hollywood Brown, Harold Fannin Jr.
Rotoworld Football Show – Fantasy Football
NBC Sports, Pat Daugherty, Kyle Dvorchak, Denny Carter
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm Patrick D'Ready, join my Mr. Kyle Dvorchick. Welcome to the |
| 0:18.7 | Road to World Football Show's week one, or maybe is it |
| 0:21.4 | week two waiver wire show? We never know what naming convention to use for this. It is the |
| 0:27.0 | waiver wire show coming after week one in advance of week two. And just a lot of big names to get to. |
| 0:33.5 | Not as many as usual, Kyle. Thankfully, knock on wood, at least so far, pretty quiet week one on the injury front. |
| 0:40.7 | But a lot of names, people are going to be wondering about. |
| 0:42.9 | A Harold fan and someone I know you want to talk about, people I'd be asking about. |
| 0:46.8 | They're going to be wondering what's going on in the Brown's backfield. |
| 0:49.8 | I've been wondering is Trey Benson for real? |
| 0:52.3 | Keenan Allen, Hollywood Brown, Kishon Booty, back-to-back 100-yard games. All players, we know that you're going to have questions about. But as we wait for some of them to come in, we will ask you right off the jump, who is the top waiver wire ad of the week? And why is it, as you already told me, Mr. Harold Fanon, Jr., third round pick of the Cleveland Browns? It is indeed. Harold Fanon, third round pick, tight end of the Cleveland Browns. I will admit, in part, because like you said, it's a relatively weak waiver wire week. We don't have the clear backup running back getting the starting role. There's not a breakout quarterback per se. There's some fun quarterback scores, but no one we think is the breakout guy. But there is a clear breakout at |
| 1:31.3 | tight end. And it's the de facto slot receiver queen chess piece of the Cleveland Browns who happens |
| 1:37.0 | to have tight end eligibility, who went out and set tied actually with Tyler Warren, the record |
| 1:41.5 | for catches by a rookie tight end in their first game ever, |
| 1:44.6 | who led the Browns, I believe, 10 or nine targets? Like, he is doing it all. The team is making it a point to get him the ball, and he looks great while doing it. They're not just force-feeding a guy, and he's doing nothing once he gets the ball. He looks like the truth, and we kind of should have expected this. He was literally the most productive tight end in college football history, and it's not even close. 1,500 yards, I believe 117 catches. It was also used as a running back in college, like, you know, the H-back type. And we saw him get a wildcat snap and fullback snaps, slot snaps, wide snaps. They want to make him the entirety of their offense, if at all possible. And it looks like he has the talent to make that happen. But not beating the H-back allegations, apparently, for Harold Freeman. I do think you're going a little bit overboard, but two data points that you really just cannot, well, three data points, you cannot lose sight of. Well, four. Okay. Well, five. There are five really. The extreme college production, of course, the third round draft capital, like, he's kind of getting out there, but he was a top 70 pick. If you're a top 70 pick skill player, you are expected to play as a rookie. And then, of course, leading the team in week |
| 2:51.1 | one targets. Maybe this is a bit of an aberration. Maybe the bingles were caught off guard, |
| 2:56.9 | not expecting Harold Fandon, to be such a focal point. I mean, David and Joku is still there. |
| 3:02.6 | Who knows what they're going to do with 12 or 11 personnel? Like one blah blah blah blah all that you don't lead the team |
| 3:09.9 | and targets the literal first game of your career there's not something going on there he's a must |
| 3:16.5 | add obviously across the board a bit of a concern in that who knows how long joe flacco is going to be |
| 3:22.0 | the quarterback you know the brown's played reasonably well yesterday and still lost in horrifying fashion |
| 3:27.2 | to a Bengals team that was just atrocious in one 17 to 16. |
| 3:31.6 | Just a reminder, this is not a good team, but I think it's fair to say you can quibble |
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