• Sports Nation - Grade B "Steals earned high grades, while panicking on quarterbacks gets knocked in way-too-early grades. The Cleveland Browns could have gone full Browns in the 2017 NFL draft by rushing a pick at quarterback and they didn’t. It was smart." http://www.sbnation.com/nfl-mock-draft/2017/4/29/15485600/2017-nfl-draft-grades-day-3-winners-losers-results
• UPI - #2 in list of 5 top "winners" http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/NFL/2017/04/30/2017-NFL-Draft-Five-teams-that-won-the-draft/2001493557440/
• CBS - "Winner: Cleveland Browns Time will be the judge as to whether or not the Browns came away from this draft with their future franchise quarterback, but they handled the situation quite well, missing out on Mitchell Trubisky and Patrick Mahomes in the first round and then remaining patient. They could get burned if Deshaun Watson is good, but landing DeShone Kizer with the 52nd overall pick is a nice value play. They aren't prohibited at all from taking another shot next year at the top of the draft if he doesn't look like the answer."
• USA Today - "Winners Browns - I have a confession to make: I’m in love with the Browns front office. Honestly, Paul DePodesta and Sashi Brown could steal my dog and I would find a way to defend the move. (I don’t have a dog, by the way). Can you blame me, though? These guy just keep pulling all the right strings and picking up value along the way."
• Bleacher - listed us as neither a winner or a loser... so we must have improved in their eyes...

@mjp28 said:

WINNER!

@tour2ma said:

His mind goes only where Ted Nugent's mind went before.

@mudfly said:

OK...just had not heard anything about him.

@mudfly said:

hahaha,,,,,which can take you places you've never been......just hang on for the ride.....

Not Edgar, Ag, The Amboy Dukes...

POP Quiz: Name the member of the Dukes to emerge with the most successful music career, and then when it fizzled go on to become a darling of the right?

@tour2ma said:

Well... it is the propaganda arm of the NFL...

Funny thing is I view that trio's results in the exact reverse order... BLT > CIN > PTG...

YES... list three picks, skip a line.... list two picks, skip a line... list 3, skip 1... etc.

You have the ability to make the complex seem so simple.

@mudfly said:

hahaha,,,,,which can take you places you've never been......just hang on for the ride.....

Send that idea into the Edgar Winter Group.

@tour2ma said:

hahaha,,,,,which can take you places you've never been......just hang on for the ride.....

And there it is... a mini-journey into the mind of mud...

His rookie season stats were: 61 catches for 709 yds

Then there was a year where we drafted 4 WR's..(I know, crazy eh?)...and all 4 made the team....(even crazier)

Their combined rookie stats were: 58 catches for 698 yds....

Crazy world.....where Greg Little out produces 4 draft picks.....

I know I know.....it is real.....yepp....

@the-gipper said:

Well, not really....technically, he was waived at the end of camp and extended a PS contract, which he turned down.....choosing, instead, to sign with the Cowboys....currently, he is a Raven.

@mudfly said:

Well....yes...now IS the time to grade Farmer. In reality. Its just that a few of those picks can be graded prematurely. Ditching 2 first rounders after only being here two years..is merely giving the interim grade a poor mark.

Whew... now I know what it's like to be in a flat spin... Talk to me, Goose...

@the-gipper said:

Everybody says that...yet, if we waited 3 years, then we'd be grading Farmer 1.1 right now......(33% hit rate, btw)(plus a free crow)

@mjp28 said:

The Browns took a guy named Vince Mayle in the 4th round a couple of years ago. He was so bad that he was cut in training camp. I don't think he is playing in the league today. So...if in fact they do have to ditch Brantley...it is by no means a worse deal than they have suffered with any number of other mid to late round picks that have gone sideways. (this would just be for a different reason)

As I heard someone say: the further you go down a draft, those red flags on a guy turn from red to pink to white. With a 6th rounder for brantley...that is a white flag.

@mjp28 said:

Well... it is the propaganda arm of the NFL...

Funny thing is I view that trio's results in the exact reverse order... BLT > CIN > PTG...

@mjp28 said:

KANSAS CITY STAR (see a pattern here?)

1. (1) Myles Garrett, de, Texas A&M

1. (25) Gerbil Peppers, lb, Michigan

1. (29) David Njoku, te, Miami

2. (52) DeShone Kizer, qb, Notre Dame

3. (65) Larry Ogunjobi, dt, Charlotte

4. (126) Howard Wilson, db, Houston

5. (160) Rod Johnson, ot, Florida State

6. (185) Caleb Brantley, dt, Florida

7. (224) Zane Gonzalez, k, Arizona State

7. (252) Matthew Dayes, rb, N.C. State

YES... list three picks, skip a line.... list two picks, skip a line... list 3, skip 1... etc.

Cleveland Browns

Analysis: The Browns finally got their QB by taking DeShone Kizer with the 20th pick of the second round. Until that point, it was beginning to seem as if they were going out of their way to avoid trying to land their franchise QB, having traded the No. 2 overall choice last year that the Eagles used for Carson Wentz and then trading the 12th selection Thursday that the Texans used for Deshaun Watson. Make no mistake: The Browns got good players, and using the top overall pick on Myles Garrett was the right move.

Fellow first-rounders Jabrill Peppers and David Njoku will help, and Larry Ogunjobi is a good third-round value. But you’re supposed to get good players when you possess five of the first 65 picks. The Browns needed to address their QB situation, and it’s debatable whether getting Kizer is good enough. Cleveland also used a sixth-round choice on DT Caleb Brantley, who is facing a misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly punching a woman. Grade: C+ ......really?

The five teams that earned "A" grades in my mind were the Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, Green Bay Packers, San Francisco 49ers and -- surprise, surprise -- the Cleveland Browns.

For all the criticism of the analytics crew in Cleveland, they had a heck of a draft. Aside from trading up to get Michigan's Jabrill Peppers in the first round, they added a lot of really good players. They had a lot of picks and did some good things. They got the top player in the draft in Myles Garrett with the first pick, and then continued to do a nice job.

Tight end David Njoku was a nice add with their third first-round pick. This draft, though, will be defined by how well second-round quarterback DeShone Kizer develops. If he is their starter for a long time, this will be a great draft. Right now, it's a damn good one.

Grade: A

They certainly impressed the media so far.

@syd said:

and don't forget about the kicker

Ive been saying for years that picking the best kicker in a draft class with the 7th round pick is a better move than drafting a player at another position that you will porobably cut anyway. Glad the Browns finally did it.