1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,199 Speaker 1: Harold Fannon is coming right back home to Northeast Ohio 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: and your Cleveland Browns. Harold Fannin Junior joins us right 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: now on the hotline. Harold, congratulations and welcome back. 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, man. I appreciate you all having me. 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: What's it feel to be a Cleveland brown and playing 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: for the team in Northeast Ohio when you're from Ken. 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 2: It's an all real feeling, man, is going to you know, 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: growing up down the street that you actually be, you know, 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 2: one day be playing in that stadium. Definitely, just truly blessed. 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: Right now, Harold Fannon Junior joins us on the hotline 11 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: with myself, Ken Carmen, Gerrod Cherry, Andrew Siciliano, and Nathan 12 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: ze Girl go ahead. 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 3: Nathan, Harold, congratulations and welcome to the Cleveland Browns. It 14 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 3: is an absolute pleasure to talk with you. We were 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 3: very excited here in the studio when this pick was made. 16 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 3: And you know when did you know or did you 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 3: have a sense that the Browns were a team that 18 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 3: wanted to keep you home here and get in some 19 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 3: of this twelve personnel groupings alongside even a Joku for 20 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 3: what Kevin Stefanski wants to do. 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, man, So I remember, uh you know, I mean 22 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: the Browns, it was pretty much the only team that 23 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: you know, send the head coach and stuff to my school. 24 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 2: So I mean I just knew right then and there 25 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 2: that you know, the Browns really really liked me a lot. 26 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: And uh, you know, we talked. Obviously, you talked a lot, 27 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 2: but it's just crrange that it actually came true. 28 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 4: Harold Girogerrery here and congratulations, my man. I've called a 29 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 4: few of your games with you playing for Bowling Green, 30 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 4: and one of the things that I would talk to 31 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 4: your side about was this idea of you being labeled 32 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 4: h R you back, and it never made no sense 33 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 4: to me in that you line up everywhere, tell us 34 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 4: about the skill set and how you envision being utilized 35 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 4: with this great skill set in this office with the 36 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns. 37 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: I mean pretty much when you come on my college tape, 38 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 2: you know and talk with the brown you know, the 39 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: pretty much want to see me do basically when I 40 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 2: did that blow and Green, you know, just continue to 41 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 2: do stuff like that, being able to move around, you know, 42 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: have some versatility and just you know, be being able 43 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 2: to play out a position and uh, you know, obviously 44 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 2: continue to keep me on as a time or anything 45 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 2: like that, but you know, just being able to just 46 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 2: be an offensive weapon all around. 47 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 5: Harold, you had to wait a little bit. It's Andreilliano 48 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 5: by the way. Congrats man. You had to wait a 49 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 5: little bit, and I would have to think, I mean, 50 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 5: no one, I don't want to put a chip on 51 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 5: your shoulder. But you said there's only one coach really 52 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 5: come working out and and and hey you're going up 53 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 5: the road of the Browns. We are all thrilled. What 54 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 5: was that weight like and what's it going to do 55 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 5: to the fire inside you? 56 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: Well, I'm always fired up to play football, man, you know, 57 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just a competitive So whether I got 58 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 2: picked you know, first, or the learning glass or not 59 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 2: at all, you know what I mean, I'm going to 60 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: be fired up, you know. I mean, I've been playing 61 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: this game for a long time. I love playing football. 62 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: You know, no nobody got to, you know, get me 63 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 2: how to play football. I'm all he's ready. 64 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 3: Harold. You are safety in high school and then make 65 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 3: this conversion to tight end. Have fifteen one hundred and 66 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 3: fifty five yards last year one hundred and seventeen catches. 67 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 3: What was that transition? Like, what do you remember when 68 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 3: they first told you, hey, we actually see you as 69 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 3: a tight end, and here you are now drafted early 70 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 3: in the third round as a tight end. 71 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 2: I mean pretty much. I mean I was always down. 72 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 2: I mean I always grew up playing offense a lot. Uh, 73 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 2: you know, I love playing offense, So you know when 74 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 2: he told me, you come play tight, and I was 75 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: always you know, obviously I wanted to play, you know, 76 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 2: things like that. You know, I just want to continue 77 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: to keep doing that. 78 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 4: And Harold, in a conversation with your former head coach, 79 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 4: Scott Leffler, he had given us conversation about you staying 80 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 4: at Bowling Green and why you made that decision, because 81 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 4: I have to imagine that there were some opportunities out 82 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 4: there yet and still you decide to stay there. Could 83 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 4: you give us some insight on that and your decision making. 84 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean definitely the relationship I built with 85 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 2: my coaches and the teammates. So I definitely said I 86 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: played a part, but obviously a role I played, uh, 87 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 2: you know in the offense and how I fit the scheme. 88 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 3: Harold, when was being an NFL player a dream for you? 89 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 3: When did that dream? When that When did you say, 90 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 3: you know what, I think I can be in the NFL? 91 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 3: Or that was your aspiration? 92 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? I always been my goal, man. I remember I 93 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: was young and you know, like second third grade and 94 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: teaching like who do you want to be? And when 95 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: you get older? Of course I was a king. I 96 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 2: want to I want to play being an NFL. 97 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 3: How special is that that that dream of a young 98 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 3: kid is a reality now? 99 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 2: Is especially the place like coun Crown and uh, you 100 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: know so, I mean I definitely, Uh, you know it 101 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 2: took a lot of hard work, dedication, in time and sacrifice. 102 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 3: Is here The Browns early in this draft at number 103 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 3: thirty three, took a linebacker out of UCLA, Carson Sweeshinger, 104 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 3: and like you, was a no star recruit and you 105 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: guys have forced the world to acknowledge you, to recognize you, 106 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 3: and now you are both NFL players in the same 107 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 3: draft class picked in the first you know, seventy picks 108 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 3: of the twenty twenty five NFL Draft. That hunger, he 109 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 3: talked about it earlier. You talked about you don't have 110 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 3: to get me fired up to play football. You're gonna 111 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: do it. How does that fuel you to keep proving 112 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 3: people wrong? Because to do what you have done is 113 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 3: that you have proved people wrong. 114 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 2: Uh, I mean, I mean obviously I'm gonna keep trying 115 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 2: to you know, I don't really think about it like 116 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: proving people wrong. I'm more so like proving. 117 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: It proving yourself right. 118 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, prove yourself right, Harold. 119 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 5: What's the last thing for me? What's it like to 120 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 5: catch seventeen passes in a game? 121 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 3: Fun? 122 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 2: It's pretty fun, you know what I mean? That's a 123 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: little bit. 124 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 4: And Harold, I describe your run after catch style like 125 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 4: a running back with a tight end body. Talk to 126 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 4: us about that and what you bring to the table 127 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,239 Speaker 4: far as your wreck responsible ability to run after the catch. 128 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I grew up playing running back. You know, 129 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 2: you kind of been taught to fall for or you know, 130 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 2: I make to make the one guy missed or something 131 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 2: like that. So you know, whenever I'm out there, I'm 132 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 2: just pretty much just try to scoo it. Really, I mean, 133 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 2: I mean, that's awesome. 134 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: Good, all right, I'm gonna take a stab in the 135 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: dark here. Uh, Harold, is it Taggart's ice cream that 136 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: you like better? Haggi's ice cream that you're like her. 137 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 2: I don't know, Haar, So i'mna have to go with tiggers. 138 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: All right, Harold? Thank you? Hold on, I got a 139 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: question ahead. 140 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 5: Spots, poly eyes or trotters. 141 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, right fame, Oh, Harold, 142 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: thank you very much for for for going ahead and 143 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: answering that. Harold. We thank you so much for the time. 144 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing you beg over here in Maria 145 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: next week. Enjoy the rest of the night. 146 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 4: Buddy, gratulations. 147 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: Congratulations Harold, Harold Fannin Jr. On the Hotline, former Bowling 148 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: Green Falcon, former Camp McKinley, Bulldog, coming back to northeast 149 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: Ohio and we'll be playing for your Cleveland Browns.