Players to Drop in Fantasy Football Ahead of Week 3: Move On From Marvin Harrison Jr.

Week 2 is in the books, and it’s time to prepare for your Week 3 waiver wire adds.

Of course, knowing which players to target is key, but equally as important is identifying which players are worth dropping from your roster in order to add the hot waiver candidates. This week’s edition of drops features some players that you drafted inside the top 10 rounds of your fantasy drafts, but you shouldn't be afraid to move on from them.

Players to Drop in Fantasy Football Ahead of Week 3

Marvin Harrison Jr. | WR | Arizona Cardinals

Roster percentage: ESPN (88.6%), Yahoo (90%)

Marvin Harrison

It’s just not going to happen, y’all.

Honestly, if his name didn’t carry so much weight, Marvin Harrison Jr. would be an obvious drop in fantasy leagues. But the pedigree and prospect profile still have some holding out for hope. I hate to break it to you, but it’s time to move on.

Harrison caught the same number of passes as me this week. And for those who aren’t aware, I, in fact, do not play in the NFL, which makes Harrison’s stat line even more troubling. He saw just one target in the game, and through two weeks he has operated as Arizona’s clear fourth option in the passing game, drawing a target on just 6.4% of his routes. I was hoping the deployment would improve for Harrison following his rookie year, but it’s seemingly getting worse. So far this season, Harrison has run go routes 30.6% of the time, the highest rate of his career and the 12th-highest rate in football. Since entering the NFL, Harrison is third in the league in backshoulder go targets, as he rarely sees schemed usage in any iteration of Arizona’s offense.

Through two weeks, Harrison is tied for fifth on the Cardinals in targets. Fifth! You can’t start him, and he hasn’t shown any semblance of fantasy upside to warrant holding on your bench.

Quentin Johnston | WR | Los Angeles Chargers

Roster percentage: ESPN (70.5%), Yahoo (82%)

Quentin Johnston has had a brutal start to the 2026 campaign because, well, he plays for the Chargers. This offense has had an embarrassing start to the season, struggling to score points at home against the Cardinals and Raiders. Johnston hasn’t helped himself, dropping multiple passes. Through two weeks, he’s caught three passes for 24 scoreless yards, and couldn’t even take advantage of Ladd McConkey being in a limited role this past Sunday. Somehow, with Mike McDaniel calling plays, everything in this passing game looks difficult for Justin Herbert and company.

Given their upcoming schedule, things aren’t likely to get much easier:

Week 3: @ BUF
Week 4: @ SEA
Week 5: vs DEN
Week 6: @ KC
Week 8: @ LAR
Week 9: vs HOU
Week 10: @ BAL

Eventually, I’d like to believe McDaniel and Herbert will get it going, but that schedule really doesn’t instill a ton of confidence. Admittedly, I’d be a lot more willing to hold onto Johnston than Harrison, but if you had to drop him for someone like Jonah Coleman, I wouldn’t fault you one bit.

Wan’Dale Robinson | WR | Tennessee Titans

Roster percentage: ESPN (75.3%), Yahoo (57%)

Legitimately the only argument that can be made for Wan'Dale Robinson in fantasy football is volume. And if he isn’t seeing it, he has no business being on fantasy rosters. Robinson caught his lone target this past Sunday, though, to be fair, the Titans were surprisingly efficient on the ground and remained competitive against the Eagles. Still, Robinson has just seven targets across two games, while four Tennessee wide receivers have run around 60% of the routes or more so far this season. With a 4.3 aDOT, Robinson needs to see 6-10 targets each week to be even remotely fantasy relevant.

Michael Mayer | TE | Las Vegas Raiders

Roster percentage: ESPN (28.5%), Yahoo (21%)

The good news? Mayer has run 81% of the routes to go along with a 22% TPRR and 19% target share with Brock Bowers sidelined the first two weeks of the season. He’s averaging a healthy 5.5 targets per game. The bad news?

It hasn’t led to much fantasy production.

Mayer has averaged just 27.5 receiving yards and 7.2 PPR PPG, and now it appears Bowers could make his season debut in Week 3. His return would obviously render Mayer useless in fantasy circles, and even if Bowers sat out one more week, there are other potential waiver wire tight ends that project just as well as Mayer, if not better—players like Dalton Schultz, Hunter Henry and perhaps even Darren Waller.