Do you hear that? It is the sound of the clock ticking down to the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
We are now just five days away from the biggest offseason event on the NFL calendar, which means we are also deep, deep into speculation and smoke-screen season.<\/p>\n
No one \u2014 not NFL media members, not \u201cinsiders\u201d with their dubious information, or fans with sources \u2014 knows what will take place across the three days and seven rounds of the draft.<\/p>\n
But that has not stopped anyone from declaring that two absolute certainties will occur:<\/p>\n
The first is that the Las Vegas Raiders will select quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 overall selection. Not even the Raiders, who haven\u2019t won a playoff game since 2002 and have had only two winning seasons since then, can mess this one up. (Right?)The second, in what has somehow become the biggest guarantee since Joe Namath talked to reporters by the hotel pool in Miami before Super Bowl III, is that the Cleveland Browns will trade the No. 6 overall selection.<\/p>\n
Will that happen? Possibly. But if\/when it does, hopefully it will involve receiving another first-round selection in this year\u2019s draft so general manager Andrew Berry can fix another roster hole, rather than waiting and hoping that the Browns will be in a position in 2027 to select quarterback Archie Manning. (If that is even something they should consider is a topic for another day.)<\/p>\n
The good news is that everyone will know Berry\u2019s intentions soon enough. For now, let\u2019s open the weekend with the latest edition of the Saturday Dawg Chow.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Browns in attendance at Tyson’s work-out today<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Browns have representatives at Tyson’s work-out today along with 19 other NFL teams. If he passes medicals today, could see him moving up the draft board even though injury history still a concern. <\/p>\n LikeRec 4CommentsThin Stroke Comment Icon BubbleReply<\/p>\n We do not have a Jordyn Tyson draft profile at the moment, but that will be remedied later today. So y\u2019all come back now, ya hear?<\/p>\n The true measure of NFL draft prospect Carnell Tate (ESPN)<\/a> – Carnell Tate placed his palms on the turf and crouched at the starting line of the 40-yard dash. Ordained as the next in a long line of superstar wide receivers from Ohio State, Tate drew his left arm back before surging forward with his right leg at the NFL Combine in February.Zay Flowers on CRAZY Ravens Practices, Lamar Jackson Bond, & John Harbaugh\u2019s Exit (4th & South Podcast)<\/a> – Baltimore Ravens star Zay Flowers sits down for a honest, unfiltered conversation with former NFL stars Jarvis Landry and Leonard Fournette on the intense AFC North rivalry between the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers, why they will always HATE each other, shares his honest thoughts on John Harbaugh\u2019s shocking departure from Baltimore including how much he OVERWORKED his players, and explains why he\u2019s excited about the Ravens\u2019 new coaching staff with Jesse Minter at the helm.Texans, DE Will Anderson Jr. agree to three-year, $150 million extension (NFL.com)<\/a> – Not long after doling out one massive extension, the Houston Texans have paid the other half of the NFL\u2019s most prolific sack tandem. Will Anderson Jr. and the Texans agreed to terms on a three-year, $150 million extension on Friday, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported.No smoke screen, Bucs need to fortify their defense in NFL draft (Tampa Bay Times)<\/a> – The same could have been said last year, but they took wide receiver Emeka Egbuka in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you hear that? It is the sound of the clock ticking down to the 2026 NFL Draft.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,1864,2337,9919,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-869082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-news","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-daily-dawg-chow","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869082","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=869082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}