{"id":800350,"date":"2026-03-08T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800350\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:41:12","slug":"browns-2026-nfl-draft-duke-ol-brian-parker-ii-has-the-versatility-cleveland-needs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800350\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns 2026 NFL Draft: Duke OL Brian Parker II has the versatility Cleveland needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Browns could be in the market for position-flexible offensive linemen in the 2026 NFL Draft simply based on the number of holes that they need to fill as of right now. A player like Duke OG\/C Brian Parker II could be the type of player Cleveland targets in rounds 3-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As of right now, the Browns have to replace all three interior offensive line positions, though there\u2019s still a slight chance that Joel Bitonio comes back for one more season in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One of Andrew Berry\u2019s realistic targets on day two or three could be Duke\u2019s Brian Parker II, who was one of the highest-rated offensive linemen in all of college football last season. He also performed incredibly well at the Panini Senior Bowl earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He played right tackle last year for Duke and graded out incredibly well in both phases of the game, but his pass protection may be his most impressive trait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The way he\u2019s able to consistently hit his landmarks on pass rushers and stay under control despite having shorter arms is incredible, and it\u2019s easy to see that he\u2019s been coached very well throughout his career. Parker\u2019s always fighting to maintain leverage and inside hand position, which leads to defenders stalling out early in the rep.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He has a strong upper body as well, which allows him to steer defenders away from the ball in the run game, but he\u2019ll have to gain some strength in his lower body at the next level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He spent the majority of his snaps at the Senior Bowl at guard and center, and performed very well there despite not snapping the ball much in college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Parker has a similar skillset and almost identical size to former Duke star and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u2019 tackle-to-center convert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/graham-barton\/32004241-5276-8688-5a6e-aadc714bdd3c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Graham Barton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Graham Barton<\/a>. Cleveland could gravitate towards Parker at some point in April in an attempt to replicate how Barton\u2019s career has gone so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Browns could be in the market for position-flexible offensive linemen in the 2026 NFL Draft simply based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[112132,40030,75520,9475,85,7643,7,22316,19973,6,15,941,3501,250,582,4718],"class_list":{"0":"post-800350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-acc-football-championship","9":"tag-brian-parker","10":"tag-brian-parker-ii","11":"tag-charlotte","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-duke-blue-devils","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-graham-barton","16":"tag-joel-bitonio","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-north-carolina","20":"tag-offensive-linemen","21":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","22":"tag-the-browns","23":"tag-virginia-cavaliers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116193609954475432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800350","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=800350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}