{"id":928486,"date":"2026-06-25T14:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/928486\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:18:28","slug":"browns-believe-2026-nfl-draft-will-pay-off-in-a-very-big-way-have-already-flashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/928486\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns believe 2026 NFL draft \u2018will pay off in a very big way,\u2019 have \u2018already flashed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">And the hope, after the spring they just had, is that their double downs on two particular offensive positions will pay off in a very big way in big-time areas of need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Breer notes that both rookie receivers, KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston, have \u201calready flashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With OT Spencer Fano as Cleveland\u2019s first pick in 2026, it is easy to overlook third-round OT Austin Barber, but he also looks the part as a potential long-term starter on the offensive line:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">As for Barber, there\u2019s only so much you can tell with lineman before the pads go on, but he\u2019s big, long and athletic, and has looked like he has everything a starting tackle needs. He\u2019ll have to develop, of course, and the Browns will know more on how fast that might come along once the guys actually start hitting in the summer. But if Fano and Barber can be the team\u2019s bookends going forward \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Right after the NFL draft, the hope around the Browns picks was palpable. Now, with training camp a month away, those prospects have seen the field and started to back up some of the hype surrounding them, especially the pieces drafted early on offense. Now, they\u2019ll have to continue to show that skill when the pads go on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">What do you make of this report on a few of the Browns rookies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And the hope, after the spring they just had, is that their double downs on two particular offensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4397,1864,1696,7,6,15],"class_list":["post-928486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-draft","tag-cleveland-browns-draft","tag-cleveland-browns-news","tag-cleveland-browns-roster","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116811183103804784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928486","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=928486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}