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Browns 2021 Off-Season Thread

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What Position Should the Browns Focus On Improving?

  • Wide Receiver

    Votes: 6 4.5%
  • Defensive End/Edge

    Votes: 47 35.6%
  • Defensive Tackle

    Votes: 14 10.6%
  • Cornerbacks!

    Votes: 14 10.6%
  • Safeties

    Votes: 14 10.6%
  • DBs in General

    Votes: 59 44.7%
  • Linebacker Corps

    Votes: 70 53.0%
  • Leg-Related Special Teams Personnel

    Votes: 3 2.3%
  • Maine Coon

    Votes: 6 4.5%
  • Norwegian Forest Cat

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • Total voters
    132
If there's a scenario where Horn is available at the right price in a move up, Berry will run to the end zone, lift up the goal post padding, and get his phone to call and make that deal.
The Browns have 9 draft picks and I really only see about 6 or 7 positions they'll come out of the draft with (OT, DE, DT, LB, CB, S, and maybe WR)... Not to mention, I'm not sure they could fit 9 draft picks on the roster..

We know analytics tell you more draft picks the better, but with where the Browns stand window wise, and with the relatively lackluster options potentially available at 26, I really do think if Horn or Surtain fall to the late teens, we see the Browns try to move up and snag one... Having another reliable CB would really set this defense up and both Surtain and Horn are young, productive, battle tested, clean bills of health, NFL pedigrees and posted elite NFL testing numbers...

However if they do trade up from 26, I do think it's likely only for Surtain or Horn and I think they trade back from some other picks to recoup potential losses from trading up..

On the other side, I think there's also a good chance if Horn/Surtain don't fall, and Ojulari/Newsome aren't there, the Browns likely trade back in that scenario..
 
We know analytics tell you more draft picks the better, but with where the Browns stand window wise, and with the relatively lackluster options potentially available at 26, I really do think if Horn or Surtain fall to the late teens, we see the Browns try to move up and snag one... Having another reliable CB would really set this defense up and both Surtain and Horn are young, productive, battle tested, clean bills of health, NFL pedigrees and posted elite NFL testing numbers...
I keep coming back to the relative availability of Horn/Surtain in this draft.

The Browns are probably going to be drafting in the 20s/30s for some time (knock on wood). They’re not going to be anywhere close to a position to draft a blue-chip CB in the near future.

In most drafts, top CBs like Horn or Surtain would be gone in the top 10, maybe the top 5-7. This draft is not most drafts. There is a bumper crop of talent on offense - four (possibly five) QBs, at least one OT, at least a couple of WRs, and a generational TE prospect are all likely to go before a CB gets drafted. It’s quite possible both Surtain and Horn are on the board at 10, possibly into the teens.

If that happens, the Browns could well strike. In 2018, Seattle and Green Bay pulled off a deal in which Seattle traded #18 overall for the Packers’ #27 overall pick plus third and sixth-round picks. That’s the kind of trade up I could see the Browns doing. I highly doubt they’d surrender future picks, especially first or second-rounders. But if the draft gets to the mid-teens, and one of those CBs is still on the board, and Berry could move up for, say, the extra third and fourth-round picks that the Browns possess this year, I think he might.
 
The Browns have 9 draft picks and I really only see about 6 or 7 positions they'll come out of the draft with (OT, DE, DT, LB, CB, S, and maybe WR)... Not to mention, I'm not sure they could fit 9 draft picks on the roster..


I've heard that repeated many times before and I say that's absolutely nonsense.

The Browns secondary still needs, at least, 3 new players, IMO. That doesn't include DT, EDGE, and WR.
 
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How the hair did he get his hair back? I wanna know...
The hair we normally see is pretty 'big' so there might be some toupee action going on. Not meaning to diss the guy I root for him big time.

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I've heard that repeated many times before and I say that's absolutely nonsense.

The Browns secondary still needs, at least, 3 new players, IMO. That doesn't include DT, EDGE, and WR.
How so?

If we're looking things roster conservatively:

QB (2): Baker, Keenum
RB (2): Chubb, Hunt
FB (1): Janovich
TE (3): Hooper, Njoku, Bryant
WR (5): OBJ, Landry, Higgins, Hodge, DPJ
OL (7): Wills, Bitonio, Tretter, Teller, Conklin, Hubbard, Harris
DL (5): Garrett, McKinley, Clowney, Jackson, Elliott
LB (5): Smith, Walker, Phillips, Takitaki, Wilson
DB (6): Ward, Hill, Williams, Johnson, Delpit, Harrison
ST (3): Gillan, Parkey, Hughlett
TOTAL: 39

That's on the conservative end not including guys who I think will make the roster: D'Ernest Johnson, Stephen Carlson, JoJo Natson, One or two of Michael Dunn, Drew Forbes, Greg Senat or Blake Hance, Porter Gustin, Sheldrick Redwine... That's also not including guys who spent time on the roster last year like Robert Jackson, MJ Stewart, Elijah Lee, Joe Jackson, AJ Green, Montrell Meander and other guys who they held on the PS/IR all year such as Elijah Benton, Jovante Moffett, Curtis Weaver and Alex Taylor..

So adding 9 draft picks to the conservative 39 total would bring it to 48 which would leave only 5 slots for the rest of the characters I just mentioned...

Like I said, I just don't see the Browns carrying 9 rookies on the roster this year... Between the current roster construction, the number of draftable players this year and their current window, I think they defer some picks to future years...
 
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Has anyone heard anything about any of our players getting vaccinated? Just curious.
 

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