RCF's MOCK DRAFTS

[RuanuLaw]

Ok, with FA pretty much settled, I think it is time to turn our full attention to the Draft which is in about 30 days.

I thought it would be a little fun if we made our own mock draft, BUT ONLY for the Browns' picks. We can then discuss, agree, or ridicule the other's poster's mocks :chuckles: .

LETS ONLY GO UP TO ROUND 4 CAUSE ANYTHING AFTER THAT IS A CRAPSHOOT.

Here I go:

Round 1: -DeAngelo Williams, RB, Memphis Sr, 5-10, 217
Round 2: -Taitusi Lutui, OG, USC Sr, 6-6, 365
Round 3: -Gerris Wilkerson, ILB, Georgia Tech Sr, 6-4, 230
Round 4: -Jesse Mahelona, DT, Tennessee Sr, 6-2, 300
Round 4: -Jason Hatcher, DE, Grambling St. Sr, 6-6, 285

PS-DeAngelo Williams will be a BEAST in the NFL. I will still say this even if he were to...oh lets say, he went to Baltimore. The guy is the reincarnation of Barry Sanders. And Taitusi Lutui will start halfway through the season.

Take a stab people.

 

[cdt]

Exactly why you're not a general manager, we focused on offense in FA, our last 3 year 1st rounders have been offense... (Edwards, Winslow, Faine) We need to invest a high pick or two on some defense.

Round 1: Brodrick Bunkley DT Florida State
Round 1: Trade back into round 1 using additional picks... and select Manny Lawson or Bobby Carpenter.
Round 3: Rodrique Wright DT Texas
Round 4: Maurice Drew RB
Round 5 Michael Robinson QB/WR/KR/PR Penn State

I'll add more rounds later after I become more familiar with the later round prospects.

 

[Style]

We could do worse than the all Buckeye draft:

1. Hawk
2. Carpenter
3. Kudla
4. Sims

Hawk will be a star, and Carpenter would be a starter before the year is through. I think Kudla's niche in the NFL will be as a pass rush DE in the 4-3, so we may not be a great fit for him, but he'd be an intriguing 3-4 OLB prospect. He was an LB in high school at least. Sims is a decent interior OL prospect for a day 2 pick.

Of course the above will never happen, for a few reasons, and I'm not even sure I'd want it to.

Here's not who I think we'll get, but more of a dream draft scenario:

1. Ngata
2. Carpenter
3. Daryn Colledge
4. Abdul Hodge

All studs, all positions of need, all ranked slightly higher overall than where the Browns will draft in each round listed. That last peice means that it's unlikely all 4 would drop to us. However, 1 or 2 might. If so, we should definitely snatch them.

 

[Style]

Hmmm, just realized I was using the wrong draft position data, i.e. where our picks fall overall. Can anyone post our overall draft positions? Thx.

 

[Mac]

Bunkley...bust. Id take Williams over Bustley every day of the week.

 

[gizman]

Cstyle,

No way Hodge drops to the 4th round. He's a late first to early second round guy.

 

[RuanuLaw]

Exactly why you're not a general manager, we focused on offense in FA, our last 3 year 1st rounders have been offense... (Edwards, Winslow, Faine) We need to invest a high pick or two on some defense.

You don't need 1st rounders on D. We have Romeo Crennel for that. The guy can turn your wheelchaired grandma into a decent player.

What the D needs is 3-5 round guy who are solid, and smart. That is all Romeo asks for.

Now when it comes to Offense, then you do need 1-2 round guys. You need stars on offense and solids on D.


PS- Manny Lawson just ran a 4.41. I think that Romeo and Phil might go for him with the 12. I say Lawson is my backup for 1st round.

 

[Mac]

We need good defensive players. He didnt play with scrubs in NE.

Law, McGinest, Bruschi or whatever his name is, Vrable while he was there, these are good NFL football players.

We need help on the DL very very very badly. We also need an ILB badly.

Id address that first if I could, maybe trade down a couple spots to get extra picks and snatch up Lawson

 

[gizman]

Trade down and draft D'Qwell Jackson and either Lawson or Carp.

 

[cdt]

I seriously will be pissed if we don't get Lawson..honestly he is a freak of nature. I want him on this team...

 

[cdt]

Now when it comes to Offense, then you do need 1-2 round guys. You need stars on offense and solids on D.

No, you need to use high draft choices on both sides of the ball unless you want to put up huge offensive numbers and get mauled on defense. Playmakers are necessary on both sides of the ball, obviously your statement is false about getting anyone on D and making them good. That's why we cut Fisk Lang and Lehan. And we let Ben Taylor go. Crennel needs things to work with. He isn't a miracle worker. Someone as athletic as Lawson under McGinest and Crennel's tutelage could be a premier LB in the NFL.

 

[Style]

Cstyle,

No way Hodge drops to the 4th round. He's a late first to early second round guy.

Didn't know that. Scout has him as the 83rd best player overall, so I thought there was a remote possibility:

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=149&p=9&c=12&yr=2006&nid=83&lnid=124&rc=4&pid=88&pg=2

I have to admit that it doesn't seem like there could be 82 players better than Hodge. I thought that seemed squirelly. An early second rounder is what I'd of guessed before looking at scout...

 

[gizman]

C Style,

I just checked out that site... and while Scout.com is usually a pretty reliable website, I thought there were a few silly rankings.

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=149&p=9&c=12&yr=2006&nid=83&lnid=124&rc=4

Check out who #29 overall is.

 

[Style]

Scout.com is usually a pretty reliable website

The Ohio State scout site is the best Buckeye site out there, and their Browns site isn't terrible, but stuff like the complete rankings of college players for the draft is a function of the whole scout network, not just 1 or 2 sites. Perhaps that while scout has a few individual killer sites, the network as a whole isn't all that?!?!

 

[Style]

According to Kiper's Mock draft, Hawk will drop to #9:
http://www.freebiewizard.com/NFL_2006_Mock_Draft/NFL_Mock_Draft_Reggie_Bush_2.htm

If he drops that far, what would it take to trade up 3 spots? Could we package the #12 with Faine or with a 3rd rounder to move up and get him?

OK, I'm going to take another stab it. This time only taking players who are ranked at or lower than the position we will draft at, instead of those ranked above where we pick like I did last time. I will again use scout's (flawed?) rankings:

1 (12). Chad Greenway (13 on scout) or Winston Justice (17 on scout). I'm not sold on Greenway yet, so I'm keeping Justice in there. I'd be happy either way I guess.
2 (43). Gabe Watson (44 on scout). Daryn Colledge (62 on scout) would be my second choice.
3 (78). Abdul Hodge (83 on scout). If we take Greenway in round 1, then Dusty Dvoracek (79 on scout). He led the nation in tfl by interior linemen, so he's pretty athletic and active. If he can play 2 gap, he could make a nice DE for us.
4 (110). Spencer Havner (9th OLB by scout. Scout only has the top 100 ranked, so I'm going to assume that anyone not in the top 100 would still be there at 110.). Second choice would be Darryl Tapp (14th best DE by scout) who's the right size and speed to be an OLB for us.