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The grades are in! How’d your team do?

  • April 28, 2024


I think it's comical that these media outlets grade picks right after the draft. I went back to see previous Browns grades and it gets even funnier if you look up some of the grades on our picks. Most of the time they gave us a bad grade on picks that ended up being really good for us, and great grades on picks that were terrible.

That being said how do you guys feel about how the Browns drafted?

30 comments

  1. Besides our draft picks the Browns signed these udfa

    DB Chris Edmonds Arizona State

    LB Winston Reid Weber State

    OL Lorenzo Thompson Rhode Island

    OL Javion Cohen Miami

    CB DyShawn Gales South Dakota State

    TE Treyton Weltch Wyoming

    WR Ahmarhan Brown

    RB Aiden Robinson BYU

    LT Jalen Sundell NDSU

  2. That grade is only slightly off what I would have given the Browns, which is a B. I do not know if I would agree that we had worst draft of all the teams though.

  3. They all don’t know shit, just like us. I liked our draft given the minimal capital we had. Plus we had some great UDFA signings as you posted. Overall our team is built to win so some situational DT pass rush, a great utility OL and some depth at other spots is great. The hope is some of these guys play ST and develop this year because we don’t have such a massive run of starting players injuries. My grade? GO BROWNS!

  5. Chad Reuter finished in 647th place in the 2024 mock draft accuracy rankings.

    He had a mock earlier this year where the Patriots traded #3 for #9 and Justin Fields.

    He’s a big dummy.

    *Also Reuter’s final mock draft had Michael Hall Jr. going at #52 and Zac Zinter going at #53 which just makes this grade doubly stupid. And he had Nathaniel Watson and Javion Cohen in the 170s. And he also had the Browns drafting an OG, DT, CB, and LB at various points in the draft … so we got great value on a bunch of players per his rankings and filled most of the same positions as his mocks and that’s bad? 🤡

    *OK so I guess I should read more carefully. This grade actually likes all of our picks (A- for both day 2 and day 3) but overall it’s a C+ because we didn’t have a first-round pick. That is also very dumb.

  6. I don’t like grading drafts by letter because imo every draft grade is incomplete until 2-3 years down the line. Berry has had good to great drafts each year he has been our gm and I have conference that this draft would be no different.

    I grade post draft by a yes or no question, do I like our picks? And for me the answer is yes so I’m happy with our draft.

  7. I’ve never cared for draft day grades, but yeah generally when you have no first and most of your picks are backups, your grades aren’t great.

    Without reading the logic behind his grade, I’m guessing the state of LB and TE depth after the starters is probably where he’s going to question why we didn’t do more early and instead took a backup Guard and WR5 candidate.

    I thought AB did the best he could with the last draft class that’s impacted by the Watson trade. Was this a transformational draft? No. But I think the first two picks were good and I think Nathaniel Watson is going to end up as that LB3 before long.

    I’d probably give the browns a B- but I don’t think we were close to the worst draft

  8. The only thing that bugs me about this chart is that the font on the left two columns are bolded, and the column on the right side is not bolded.

    There are only 53 roster spots to fill. A lot of players in the later rounds simply aren’t NFL quality and won’t make the roster.

  10. Draft grades are usually shit, but this one is soft as fuck haha. No controversy.

    Draft grades should always be based on how teams did within their original parameters, not compared to one another.

  11. Laughable. They attacked their needs with players that were right around the top available at their positions at the time. Just say “I don’t like the Browns” instead of giving a grade.

  13. Who cares? But I do wish we had gone RB with our first pick. Going DT in B2B years to start the draft is wild. I guess we think Ika can’t play. (Well he didn’t much last year.).
    But maybe Chubb will be ready, AB knows a lot more than I do about everything. Our roster is loaded. If we have decent QB okay we will be fantastic without all these new guys.

  14. I think it’s fair to consider what we did with our 1st rounder as part of the grade. And if you do, there is no way we get a good score.

  20. But it was a reach. They should’ve taken that guy 7 spots later. Never mind they didn’t have a draft pick then, and who cares where drafted if the player works out, but value is the buzz word this weekend and Mel doesn’t have a job if he doesn’t manufacture that its universally important.

  21. Grading picks this early gives these journalists something to do to justify their phones-baloney jobs, harumph-harumph

  22. I think if you’re gonna be the team that has deshaun watson, just better get used to this sort of thing fair or unfair

  24. These grades are meaningless. The writers don’t have the information that the teams do on the players. Thats why the mock drafts by the guys who are eating chips on the couch never come close to what actually happens.

  27. I didn’t love the first 2 picks but understand needing to draft/develop a OG to replace Bitonio eventually.

  28. As an OSU fan familiar with Hall and Ginter, I have no clue. Especially with the late round guys.

    Realistically if anyone we drafted is still in the NFL in 5 years we killed the draft because we had so few picks and most of them were late.

  30. Ha, yeah they don’t do it because they’re really accurate. It gets clicks. You’d probably see a similar trend in free agency grades or trade grades they love to do, though draft grades are probably the most random

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