If You Were Cleveland's GM, What Would You Do At #1

Myles Garrett.

Draft Garrett and build your defense. With all those picks my first 4 would be defense. DE, CB, Safety and LB. Bring the pain back to the Dog Pound!

Have a trade in position to move to 5 if Jamal Adams is there...

Then look into Kizer or Webb at the end of round 1 so I have the 5th year option on my QB...

I'd have the picks to pull it off and I begin to turn my franchise around..

Let's not overthink it. If they want Trubisky, they can trade up for him. They have the 12th pick and have a shitload of picks.

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one at 12 -- Trubisky, Mahomes, Watson, whoever is best in my eyes and still there.

If I'm not forced to, I listen to trade offers for the #12 and keep enough picks to potentially trade up next year, if necessary, to get a better QB prospect while going pretty close to strictly BPA with whatever picks I have this one.

But if a sweet deal came to move down in the 4-6 range where I could get a package of picks and still grab Adams from LSU, I'd consider it. They grabbed some nice young pass rushers last year and their secondary is garbage. Adams seems like about as much of a can't miss safety as there's been in a while.

With the 12th pick I'd be thinking hard about Mahomes.

And not think twice. I refuse to believe that the browns take a qb number 1. They don't have to. Take the best player and see who's left at 12. I don't think the browns are that dumb. The jets are another story. I think They will take a qb at 6. That will make it 3 qbs taken within rounds 1-2 over the last 3 years and 1 more in round 3. 4 qbs drafted over 3-4 years... and these are high picks....only the jets. Watch them take one here in round 1, sucks balls this year and take another one next year lol.

But I always would be looking at the browns as a 5 year plan and they'll have an opportunity to get a qb moving forward who is as likely to succeed as anyone in this class is

at a major program against strong competition. Upon closer inspection however you will see that much of his production came against the cupcakes on the schedule. He was not a week in and week out grinder and I wonder how that plays out in the league?

Ogbah, Shelton, Carl Nassib... so I can kind of get the assumption that need might trump best available. I would try and trade down for someone who wants Fournette or Garrett, if that was not an option and I had to pick at 1, I could see more dollar signs coming with Fournette being in the house. That'd be the only dark horse angle I could see them coming from but rationale tells you Myles is the guy. I know you love that LSU Adams and that wouldn't be the worst move either since they need help in the secondary, but if you were certain Fournette turns out like most believe he will it could be more appealing.

I think if the Browns pass on Garrett, one motor company is going to be pretty ticked. Don't know if you saw it, came in an Email-
Dodge Ram Tough-The Miles Garret Draft Story, on DVD. If the Browns do go for a QB, I wonder if Dodge will get ahold of a car rental company (Avis/Hertz?) that had the old saying, when you're #2, you try harder (unless you ask Sapp for his opinion on Garrett0

and the best available at 12: Lattimore, Hooker, Howard, McCaffrey, Thomas, Williams, Davis whoever slips.

If they feel like they need a QB just to man the controls, snag a QB at 33 (Peterman? Kizer?). But, I'd be positioning to tank this year and draft the QB I like next year.

it's gonna take a lot more than Myles to save Dodge these days. I'd say stick ball's got a better chance of a come back. I could see him struggle at first, a la Gurley this season, if Brock, Hogan or another can't get it together. I think they'd have a better chance to win more games next season with Fournette on the roster.

He's a lock there.

if the rumors of other teams like Carolina wanting him that bad to trade ahead of the Jags... I draft Fournette and keep him... but I could also just dangle him and as the draft progresses- someone takes Christian - Leonard's gaining value plus the accumulation picks upon dealing him should pay out nicely. Especially since this is the year Vegas comes into the mix and these franchises are apparently going to be trading more chips than the Golden Nugget. Either way I wish the Browns God speed on their bumpy road ahead. Looking back on Money Manziel, can't get any worse, right?

Get my QB next year unless a good one falls to The 20s trade up a few slots

Trade my 1, 12 and every other pick in the draft for Tom Brady.

They take Trubiskey @1. Uh, yeah.
The 12 to Titans to jump Jets and Buffalo for Trubiskey seems to have cooled, plus they're getting other offers for the 12, as I understand.
I take Garrett @1, a top CB @12 to pair with Hayden solidifying a good young D ,make whatever trades I can with other picks to get the best players and not just use all my picks hoping if I throw enough against the wall, some stick; finally,on the likelihood we suck again in 17, use that probable top 7 pick for one of a fine bunch of QBs expected in the 18 draft.
Though, give the Browns, if I'm the Giants, I offer the #23 and our 4th thru 7th rd pick for their 12 and worst 2nd rounder this year, giving them more picks to maneuver with, and we get 12,X, plus our 55 and 87, and stay home Saturday.

Add more defense with the next pick.

Get the QB next year.

If Trubisky is taken number one overall he is going to be over analyzed, chewed up, spit out, etc. I am not saying he cannot succeed but he would already be behind the 8 ball starting his career. The amount of pressure and attention he will receive is going to be extraordinary and most players would not he able to overcome that. I am all about getting the best player but you also have to put the players in positions to succeed. Taking him number 1 overall most likely makes his job harder and that is never a good thing when like the last 15 to 20 QBs couldn't do the same thing for that franchise.

all day, every day.

Then Grab the QB with the pick 12.

Because you either can trade up to get the qb if you want or wait until next year when the qb class is fantastic

If they don't want any other QB in the first round, I couldn't blame them one bit for taking Trubinsky #1. If they value Trubinsky and Watson , and have them rated somewhat close to each other, then go with Garrett #1, and wait for your QB at 12.

I'd entertain all offers for the first pick. I'd consider a really good offer to move down and stock up on some very good options.

I admit I don't know what the best matches would be for a team trading to get the No. 1 overall pick. But if it moved me down mid-first and a team gave me their second as well and perhaps a future decent pick, I'd look at it seriously.

If that offer didn't come, I think I'd take Garrett. Then I'd entertain offers for the second first-rounder, with more intent to actually make that happen, and stock up from there. Maybe move down in the first and grab a later second or a higher third? I'd not be interested at all in Trubiski, but instead make do with the QBs already in house, then live or die with some growing pains to get my ball club reconstructed over this and the next year or two.

to move down a bit.

Cleveland has the potential to have one of the most productive drafts. Let's see if they do it.

positional players if they hold off on QB.

They are going to stink this year no matter who they take so you might as well build your team first with cost controlled players and hope a QB either 1. get lucky late in the draft (ala R. Wilson, D. Prescott, Brady yada yada) or 2. take one next year with your high pick.

Garrett at 1
Hooker or BPA at 12 (maybe Allen falls who knows)
Conley at 33 or again BPA 1 rd leftovers

That looks great to me and maybe a top 15 defense next year.

The cost to trade up to the first pick overall is enormous; the haul for Cleveland in terms of picks this year and next would be incredible.

Maybe Garrett ends up becoming a great player, but the odds of getting a great player or players increases with the amount of picks you have.

If I had the top pick in any given draft there would have to be a generational prospect sitting there for me not to try to trade down. Garrett doesn't seem like that type of player.

It's a passing league - plays the run and could be a monster pass rusher in the league.

My God - they have the 12th pick too. How do you pass up Garrett?

the 12th pick, not the 1st.

That 12th pick is going to look even better to other teams after the 1st 4-5 players go.

No way you pass on a monster generational pass rushing talent to completely disrupt those classic big body pocket passers in your division like Roethlisberger, Flacco, and Dalton. I'd double down and get the top defensive bpa at 12 unless McCaffrey drops. He's the versatile weapon that a struggling offense can use especially behind that great O-line. You can't survive the brutal AFC North unless you can hammer teams with a top defense. This is the draft where you go and get that game wrecker you've been missing and then stock up on corner/safety talent to shore up your abomination of a secondary. Get the qb next year when the better talents come out.

So you can select Sam Darnold next year.

If you see some warts on Garret. One of these QBs may become a great NFL QB but no way u pass up Garret for any of them.

Honestly I'm taking Trubisky off my board totally for insisting on Mitchell over Mitch. Definitely a red flag