{"id":19449,"date":"2025-05-03T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/19449\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T02:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:09:09","slug":"browns-draft-pick-draws-historic-nfl-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/19449\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns Draft Pick Draws Historic NFL Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Browns are fresh off a successful three days in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they walked away with an impressive haul of draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most impressive moves was general manager Andrew Berry moving back from No. 2 to No. 5 and landing Michigan Wolverines defensive star, Mason Graham, while also receiving extra draft capital from the Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Graham is an impressive player and was expected to be selected early on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Former Browns running back Leroy Hoard is also impressed by Graham and offered a stunning NFL comparison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwR5c93GUAM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on an episode of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">on an episode of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a beast, right? He kind of gives me a feel of J.J. Watt,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwR5c93GUAM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hoard said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hoard said<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s the only guy that I can think of that size, that mobility, to be able to make plays like that. That&#8217;s the last guy I can think of that looked that way. So I was excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berry noted that Graham is a good match for the Browns&#8217; defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a DNA match for our defense, a disruptive interior penetrator,&#8221; Berry said. &#8220;We thought he was one of the more dominant trench prospects in this year&#8217;s class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Graham might not start in Week 1 of 2025 as it&#8217;s a competitive room. Maliek Collins was signed in the offseason and Mike Hall is coming back from a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>But the former Wolverine is expected to be included in the early-season defensive line rotation. Berry said he wants the Cleveland defensive fronts to be six or eight players deep. And that will include Graham.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/browns-dylan-sampson-help-replace-215410431.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Can Browns Dylan Sampson Help Replace Nick Chubb?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Can Browns Dylan Sampson Help Replace Nick Chubb?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/eagles-legend-jason-kelce-offers-223431139.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Eagles Legend Jason Kelce Offers Brutal Shedeur Sanders Opinion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Eagles Legend Jason Kelce Offers Brutal Shedeur Sanders Opinion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns are fresh off a successful three days in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they walked away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[2007,86,85,54,2337,7,9627,9628,9626,1821,579,71,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-19449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-andrew-berry","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-impressive-haul","15":"tag-j-j-watt","16":"tag-leroy-hoard","17":"tag-maliek-collins","18":"tag-mason-graham","19":"tag-michigan-wolverines","20":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114441471146983647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}