{"id":862939,"date":"2026-04-10T07:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:09:28","slug":"browns-could-be-at-the-center-of-a-trade-heavy-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862939\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns could be at the center of a &#8216;trade heavy&#8217; NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL insider Jordan Schultz warned on Wednesday that he is hearing the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft might be one of the most trade-heavy first rounds &#8220;in recent memory.&#8221; He cited the fact that this draft is viewed as one that is lacks great depth, so teams will be pursuing day two and early day three picks.<\/p>\n<p>That is <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/browns-2026-nfl-mock-draft-121640355.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:very exciting for teams like the Cleveland Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;very exciting for teams like the Cleveland Browns&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">very exciting for teams like the Cleveland Browns<\/a>, who need elite talent and a lot of it as they try to flip their roster around.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Berry is no stranger to moving around in the draft. He is actually one of the more active general managers on draft night, trying to maneuver his way into a better situation while stockpiling picks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is going to be a legitimate trade candidate at both <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/browns-address-massive-offensive-holes-232809301.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:pick No. 6 and pick No. 24.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;pick No. 6 and pick No. 24.&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pick No. 6 and pick No. 24.<\/a> Up first at pick six, if they believe that they want to go tackle first and their guy is too rich to take at 6, they will take calls to the middle of the first round to teams like Dallas (12), Los Angeles Rams (13) or the Detroti Lions (17).<\/p>\n<p>If Cleveland stays put and believes that they want to select a wide receiver early and roll the dice on their tackle, they would immediately become the number one trade-up candidate at the end of the first round. The one team that would be circled in the Cleveland war room is the Lions at 17. Detroit is squarely in the tackle market, and if Cleveland wants to guarantee they get their guy, they must get ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>To do that, a prime dance partner would be the New York Jets, who hold the 16th pick.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Ohio State Buckeyes wide receiver Carnell Tate (17) catches a pass in the first half at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 in Madison, Wisconsin.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62228848ed488321debad8a41453c973.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ohio State Buckeyes wide receiver Carnell Tate (17) catches a pass in the first half at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 in Madison, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, a dream draft night scenario would be selecting Carnell Tate from Ohio State with the sixth pick. Tate is an elite wide receiver who has a professional mind and will be a factor on this team for many years to come. Then, whatever tackle they want to select, they call up New York and swap firsts and throw in pick 70 or 107 to move ahead of Detroit. Ideally, I&#8217;d like to select Monroe Freeling at the point, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Browns&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Browns<\/a>&#8216; future on offense would be young and bright.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>If Schultz&#8217;s report is correct and there is going to be a lot of first-round trade action, <a href=\"https:\/\/brownswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cleveland&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cleveland <\/a>is absolutely going to be at the center of it, no matter when it happens.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/brownswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/browns\/2026\/04\/09\/browns-center-trade-heavy-nfl-draft\/89528451007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Browns could be at the center of a &#039;trade heavy&#039; NFL Draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Browns could be at the center of a &#039;trade heavy&#039; NFL Draft&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Browns could be at the center of a &#8216;trade heavy&#8217; NFL Draft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL insider Jordan Schultz warned on Wednesday that he is hearing the first round of the 2026 NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[4955,86,85,54,2337,229,146,20413,7,6085,117359,58,255,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-862939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-dallas","14":"tag-detroit","15":"tag-draft-night","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-jordan-schultz","18":"tag-legitimate-trade","19":"tag-los-angeles-rams","20":"tag-new-york-jets","21":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116379161896001494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862939","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=862939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}