The Titans have made it clear that they’re willing to move back from the No. 1 pick, but there could be a better chance that the No. 2 pick is ultimately moved. According to Josina Anderson of Bovada, the Browns are “most willing to listen” to offers among teams in the top-six of the draft.
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Armed with the second-overall pick, the Browns are a clear suitor for a rookie quarterback. Unfortunately, this year’s draft doesn’t feature a blue-chip signal caller, and there’s a chance Cleveland could move back from No. 2 and still land one of the top positional prospects like Cam Ward or Shedeur Sanders. Of course, that would still require the Browns to hang around the top of the draft board, but the team may be tempted by a trade offer that pulls them out of that range.
Browns GM Andrew Berry may have already hinted that the organization was pivoting away from Ward or Sanders. Berry has opined that he can find a long-term starter in this year’s much-maligned crop of collegiate QBs, even beyond the top duo. If the organization is committed to spending their top selection on a QB, they could pick up some extra assets along the way vs. just reaching for a prospect with the No. 2 pick. Of course, the organization could also select Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter with the No. 2 pick and figure out QB later.
Even if the Browns are willing to trade their top pick, they’d still have to find a willing trade partner. While the No. 2 pick would still assure a team a blue-chip prospect in Carter or Hunter, there’s a belief that this year’s lackluster draft quality could impact trades atop the depth board. As ESPN’s Matt Miller writes, we may see fewer trades in the top-10 and more towards the end of the first round or beginning of the second round due to a “a lack of league-wide consensus regarding the top players.”
There is some elevated pressure for the Browns to get this pick right. The team sacrificed a good portion of their future in the regrettable Deshaun Watson trade. As a result, the organization is positioned to pick in the opening round for the first time since 2021. If the Browns have any hopes of returning to relevancy, it’ll likely start with how the team handles the second-overall selection.
Andrew Berry will screw it up again. Guaranteed.
But if he has even a scrap of sense, he should draft Will Howard.
Will Howard? I don’t think you know anything about football.
And you probably think I meant the first round. Shows what you know.
In the 3rd round, sure.
Yeah but why would they invest in a winner when they can invest in a loser? Once upon a three years ago they dumped a playoff QB for a sexual predator.
If Ward goes first overall I can see the Bears trading up with Browns offering the 10th overall pick and one of their 2nds to pick Hunter, Graham, Carter or Campbell.
10 to 2 is a pretty big leap for Chicago. I’m not sure a 2 gets it done. I think that would either require multiple 2s and a late pick or a future 1st.
If they were going after a QB I’d agree they pay the rookie QB tax
But for a non QB 10th, 39 from panthers, and possibly 2026 3rd is about right
Now if Browns found someone willing to trade up for Sanders yeah it’d take a pretty sizeable return and should take that deal but Browns know Bears aren’t trading up for a QB so the return would be less.
The only thing Browns leadership is qualified to pick is boogers. Every year they study film, do research, do interviews and then pick the wrong guy. The one QB who actually did anything (Flacco) and actually wanted to play there and they declined to offer him anything at all. I think they would have better luck flipping a coin. They will probably end up with Sanders, who I personally think is overrated, just like Williams and Richardson before him. Shedeur had daddy calling plays that made him look good, Hunter catching anything thrown within 20 yards of him, and the hype machine named Neon Deion. I hope they pick Hunter, he’d be much more useful in the long run.
The Browns best strategy would be to trade back to 1964 when they last won a championship.
Typical of the Browns… They need a QB, but if they chose not to take one that early, they are dumb for not taking Hunter.
Lol Classic Brownies. Been a hostage of this team my whole life and this is as ‘Browns’ as the Browns get. Yuck I wish I could wash the stink of my team off but alas not buying their gear will have to do.
Sincerely a closeted Browns Hostage
Hostage? Ooh, I’m claiming that, too.
trade garrett for a haul .. draft Carter at 2 to replace him.. use the extra draft capital to be in position to draft manning in 2026
Got to rebuild the draft capital they wasted on the pervert QB. Time to turn one pick into numerous slots to fill the roster.