Brown's phone is ringing with offers for the No. 1 pick but he seems content to keep it and take the player they want rather than dancing down the board and out of the top 10 for a second straight year.
Wednesday's pre-NFL Draft press conference by Browns Executive Vice President of Football Operations Sashi Browns, and Vice President of Player Personnel Andrew Berry ran for almost 30 minutes.
Garrett, a defensive end out of Texas A&M, has become the consensus choice for most draft analysts as the draft's best player, and likely first pick.
"We're open to it", Brown said.
Brown called this "a momentous" draft for the Browns, who went 1-15 last season.
That comment came at the beginning of the conference that also hinted the Browns would not be adding a veteran free agent quarterback and they may also be leaning toward taking a quarterback with one of their picks next weekend.
Reports out of Cleveland arose regarding a possible rift in the draft room regarding whether or not to draft quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with the number one overall pick. Please support our efforts. No matter who the quarterback is, this guy will get the job done.
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"We feel really good about picking at one", he said, "and I'll leave it at that".
The team has spent a lot of time getting to know Garrett over the past few months. We have said the draft is going to be the pipeline.
The Browns chose former Baylor University wide receiver Corey Coleman after the series of trades, while the Eagles drafted former North Dakota State University quarterback Carson Wentz. The fan voting has us at a grade of 3.91 right now (1 = F; 2 = D; 3 = C; 4 = B; 5 = A), which falls in line with our previous pick. "Certainly, I think you'd like to be able to look back on as many games as you can, and it is no mystery that Mitch hasn't played in a lot of them". "We do think we're positioned obviously very different coming out of 2015". Though it still stands, the Cleveland Browns are on the clock, and time is going by a lot faster than they think.
So Cleveland appears to be in the market for a reliable quarterback. "We were impressed by him". The Ohio native possesses the combination of upside and intangibles that Sashi Brown and Hue Jackson prioritized with their draft picks a year ago. With the hope Manziel would learn from his antics and first season in the National Football League, the Browns opted not to take a top QB in 2015.
- The Browns are exhausted of the narrative that they don't know what they are doing, aren't on the same page or are dysfunctional but they're not wasting time worrying about outside perception.
While talking to members of the media on Tuesday, plenty of Browns defensive players showed their excitement when talking about the possibility of having Garrett as their teammate.
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