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Daniel OyefusiApr 13, 2026, 06:00 AM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Daniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN, he covered the Miami Dolphins for the Miami Herald, as well as the Baltimore Ravens for The Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n Multiple Authors<\/p>\n CLEVELAND — The 2026 NFL draft<\/a> (8 p.m. ET on ESPN, ABC, ESPN App) will start on April 23 in Pittsburgh. The Cleveland Browns<\/a> are scheduled to make nine of the draft’s 257 picks<\/a>, beginning with the No. 6 selection of the first round on Thursday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n During the three-day event (Rounds 2-3 on April 24 and Rounds 4-7 on April 25), we will update this page with analysis on every pick.<\/p>\n A full list of Browns’ selections are below, in addition to positional needs.<\/p>\n NFL draft coverage: Round 1: No. 6 overall<\/p>\n Round 1: No. 24<\/p>\n Round 2: No. 39<\/p>\n Round 3: No. 70<\/p>\n Round 4: No. 107<\/p>\n Round 5: No. 146<\/p>\n Round 5: No. 149<\/p>\n Round 6: No. 206<\/p>\n Round 7: No. 248<\/p>\n Top three needs<\/a>: OT, WR, QB.<\/p>\n The Browns spent the first wave of free agency upgrading their offensive line<\/a>, but they still have a glaring hole at left tackle; Dawand Jones<\/a> is coming off his third consecutive season-ending leg injury and is more comfortable at right tackle. Cleveland also needs a playmaker to lift the league’s least productive receiver room in 2025. And though the Browns haven’t added another quarterback and will miss out on Fernando Mendoza<\/a>, this new staff could be compelled to draft at the position<\/a>.<\/p>\n Let’s say the Browns do go WR\/OL with their two first-round picks, as many analysts are predicting. Which position is most likely to be targeted first?<\/p>\n GM Andrew Berry has preached a best-player-available philosophy, so Cleveland is open to several approaches depending on how its draft board evolves. One interesting dynamic is the Browns specifically needing a left tackle in a draft where most of the top tackles play the right side. Berry’s comments at the NFL league meetings indicated that he wouldn’t typecast a tackle prospect based on what side he played in college. That could put players such as Francis Mauigoa<\/a> and Spencer Fano<\/a>, who both lined up primarily at right tackle, in consideration at No. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel OyefusiApr 13, 2026, 06:00 AM ET CloseDaniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[7,6,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-865955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116401279772499683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865955","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=865955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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