Berea, Ohio – At its annual press conference before the draft on Thursday, we did not learn much on the Browns of Cleveland’s plans for the draft of the NFL of next week of GM Andrew Berry.
As expected, Berry has not taken any possibility of the table concerning the overall choice n ° 2 and their plans for this.
“We will use the whole stopwatch, so to speak,” said Berry. “We don’t have to start making decisions before really Thursday evening and we will therefore use all the time offered to us and make sure that we have an in -depth plan according to what is happening at the number.”
But there is still something to say for what we know about this diet and how they have approached the previous five drafts here, especially if we consider this type of stability in Cleveland in recent years.
Maybe the two most important things to keep in mind over the next week, while the Browns are preparing to go on the clock:
- Browns generally do not exchange, and
- Browns are important to take players where the organization corresponds to their value.
At the first point: the only time the Berry regime exchanged the day of the draft in pursuit of a player came in 2021, when they sent their 59th choice to the Panthers of Caroline for choices 52 and 113, in order to acquire the second Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah with the first.
Which brings us to the second point: everything is a question of value.
The reason why the organization was willing to make such a gesture is that, thanks to his screening and project process, he had Owusu-Koramoah, as a talent in the first round. When it fell, the value of the exchange suddenly aligned.
This is something to keep in mind with regard to the reasons why it has always seemed unlikely that the Browns are trying to exchange for the first overall choice among 2.
But what about the possibility of putting in place in the first round for an additional choice there, rather than selecting in the second round at 33 years?
“I guess calls him alive, breathing in a kind of market value so to speak,” said Berry on Thursday. “So this is not something that we have to retabulate, necessarily, every year. We usually know the price if you want to move, go up or what you will receive if you get back. But yes, it certainly comes into play with one of these decisions when you arrive at the clock.”
But the primordial point of value may be the most important thing to remember when it concerns the browns and any harvest of prospects.
This is a point that Berry has made several times.
In 2022, this is what he said when they were asked about the exchange of the team and out of the second round, when they felt like they could obtain assets, and the players were all classified on their board of directors: “Each decision in terms of negotiation or return is largely based on the pool of players that we have on the table at that time.
A year later, before the recovery of 2023, this is what Berry had to say about the attribution of this value: “You think, ok, who are the players that we really like, could in fact be available during our choices and that you would correspond according to the way you appreciate certain positions or certain risk profiles, whether skills, injuries, whatever,”
And Thursday, here is what he said, hammering at home the same points for another year: “In the NFL, you all have the same resources, each team gave the same resource, right?” Same dollar, the same amount of choice. Obviously, reflux and year -old year -long flows that you allow us to allow us to obtain the best value.
It is particularly important to remember how they think of the calculated value with the big question they are faced with 2: do they go with a QB, in what in the whole was considered a lower class? Or collect a transformational skills player, most likely the Colorado CB / WR Travis Hunter, or even the Rusher of Penn State Edge Abdul Carter?
Hunter is widely considered the first hope of this year’s project. So, if it falls in n ° 2, assuming that the Titans of Tennessee select Cam Ward at 1, it would not be surprising for the Browns to find the most value for that.
But isn’t it fair different With the quarters? Especially given the positional value and in a lower year when there are fewer starters perceived? And after having signed Joe Flacco and exchanged this off -season for Kenny Pickett, the Browns always need a long -term solution to the most important position.
“We will not choose according to panic, I suppose it may be the way to contact (in computer science),” said Berry.
Yes, the Browns and Berry may use the entire shooting chronometer, but it ends.
And although all the options are always on the table, the recent history of this diet gives us some clues about the direction they can go once the time is exhausted.
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