If they don’t want to be topped out and want to push themselves back into being a playoff team under quarterback Matt Ryan, then the Falcons need a solid draft that could really infuse more talent into the roster.
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“I don’t think we would have to move up from 32 to get any player that we’d be interested in taking”, Brown told Anderson.
This is the second time Chicago gets to host the NFL Draft, which begins at the Auditorium Theatre around 7 p.m. Thursday.
Brown already showed he’s ready, willing and able to trade down. “I would say those would be the top three, for sure”.
The Cleveland Browns now hold the No. 8 overall pick in the NFL Draft after making a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles.
“We’re excited to get on the clock at pick No 3”. Then all the sudden draft time rolls around, and the team you think, ‘oh they seem like they like me the best, ‘ and all the sudden they don’t pick you. The Browns could move down and still be in position to draft their favorite receiver, possibly Mississippi’s Laquon Treadwell. But with those four selections, Cleveland can pull in a haul that might look something like this – Eli Apple (cornerback, Ohio State), Tyler Boyd (wide receiver, Pittsburgh), Derrick Henry (running back, Alabama) and Shilique Calhoun (defensive end, Michigan State). He would take pressure off whoever lines up at quarterback. The position has been devalued over the last decade, with many teams believing a comparable player can be found much later in the draft. “Ultimately, I like guys who score touchdowns”.
But we as Browns fans took a blood oath long ago that formed a binding agreement: that we will talk ourselves into whomever the Browns select with their first-round pick – hell, we’ll talk ourselves into the person so hard that we’ll celebrate like we won the lottery.
It’s a foregone conclusion that Jared Goff and Carson Wentz will go No. 1 and No. 2 in the 2016 NFL Draft, which starts Thursday. Adding the very athletic Willie Beavers gives them someone that can challenge for the starting job immediately in camp and could potentially grow into an above average player on the Browns line. He was a physical specimen and a workout warrior and people said, “We haven’t seen a left tackle prospect like this”. Paxton Lynch. The Browns are known admirers of the Memphis signal caller but would surely be reticent to pull the trigger at #8. Shortly after, Michigan State contacted him and let him know they wanted him to walk on with the intention of earning a full-ride.
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Not only are players evaluated on the strength of the “draft stock” and “measurables”, that is, how fast they run, how high they jump, how far they throw and how many passes they catch, future National Football League players are increasingly being assessed on subjective factors such as “character”. “And if that player’s not there, or if we get another offer that just blows our socks off, we’ll know how to react to that”. The team has hired and fired various regimes at an alarming pace, and the draft has always been the first chance for the new higher-ups to prove whether or not they can finally lead the Browns to success.
