Breaking: A Breakdown of potential impact players for the Cleveland Browns in the upcoming draft

The NFL Combine starts this week, this Browns mock draft hits on team’s needs on one side of the ball

The NFL Combine is kicking off in Indianapolis with the NFL draft still a couple of months away. That means we have two months of NFL mock drafts to look forward to.

Especially this early, mock drafts are about getting to know players’ names, the potential setup of what a team’s draft could look like and maybe some ideas of trades. Later in the process, mock drafters with inside information start to focus on what they expect to happen. With betting now including the draft, less information will be leaked this year

For the Cleveland Browns, eight draft picks is nice but the first one doesn’t come until the middle of the second round. Thankfully, more and more national sites are providing more than a first round in their mock drafts so we have things to cover.

The 33rd Team did just that with a three-rounder before the Combine. Many Browns fans will be happy with the results:

Pick 55, Cleveland Browns: Xavier Worthy, WR, Texas

Pick 86, Cleveland Browns: Trey Benson, RB, Florida State

We’ve covered Worthy as a speedster in the vein of Travis Benjamin which could unlock the offense while Benson is a perfect three-down back who can keep Nick Chubb healthy over time.

The only question is whether Cleveland can fill out their defensive needs later in the draft or will those already be filled in free agency?

NFL trade market: Two moves that the Browns should look into

Jonathan Allen and Jerry Jeudy might be available this offseason

The “Hear me out.” We’ve all been in this situation before. If you ever been around your friends (whether it is in high school or college) there is that one friend in that friend group who has an idea that looks good on paper but somewhat outlandish and a bit of a longshot.

You might get some side-eyes, head shaking in disagreement and possibly some expletives being thrown your way but you still recommend the idea.

Do you go end up going through with the plan? Probably not but you at least tried it.

We’ve seen teams, including the Cleveland Browns, in free agency take big swings before and sometimes it works, other times it was a disappointment. If there is one thing that general manager Andrew Berry does is take swings. He’s not afraid to do what’s necessary to improve the quality of this team.

“But what about the salary cap?” “Is he even thinking about the future?” “How can he make these moves despite the salary cap situation being bad?” “You can’t spend that much money without it backfiring.” “Winning the offseason again, look what that has got us!”

Regardless of what people say, Berry will find a way to manipulate the salary cap like they did last year.

Here are the two moves that the Browns should consider that we classify as “Hear me out:”

Trading for Washington Commanders DT Jonathan Allen

As I was scrolling through my timeline on Twitter, I came across a conversation with Cory Kinnan (who works for TheBrownsWire) and Jacolby Hart (who works for SBNation but you know him as Colb):