There will be a longview "what if" debate between the Browns' and Eagles' respective hauls from the 2016 NFL Draft, with a need to see what Carson Wentz becomes before pa sing judgment on the Eagles soaring up
Sean Chandler Jersey to the No. 2 overall pick.The Browns' plan was the opposite: to acquire the most a sets. General Manager Sashi Brown, speaking Saturday, said he was "surprised" by how much the Eagles were willing to give up. "We were pleased with it,'' . "I was a little surprised we got as much as we did, but some hard negotiating and Vice President of Player Personnel Andrew Berry was a big help in that, keeping me at bay and not pulling the trigger too soon."We were able to come away with what should be the foundation of the championship team that we're going to build." The debate about the trade is going to come down to Wentz. If he's a
Frankie Luvu Jersey great (good?) quarterback and the Browns don't find someone before Wentz performs well, people will freak out about Cleveland pa sing on a good quarterback. This a se sment, because it involves a quarterback, could very well ignore a) the fact he would struggle if he played in Cleveland and b) how the rest of the Browns players do. It happens. And Brown admitted the idea of pa sing on a po sible blue-chip player at No. 2 overall is something that can haunt a team."You always have that second-gue sing in the back of your mind that if the
Thomas Fletcher Jersey player that we would've selected there at two pans out," Browns said. "You're going to be thinking about it for a long time certainly." At the end of the day, Cleveland had a roster needing too many upgrades and too much talent at various positions to ignore the opportunity of landing a lot of players and an additional future first-round pick.Knowing Corey Coleman -- the top-ranked wideout on the Browns' board -- might still be
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