So Far So Good. I Think.

As I've been saying all along, the Browns really need a blistering fast wide receiver more than a quarterback.

Ok ok I confess: I totally ignored Corey Coleman because he was only 5'11" and had an eleven percent drop rate (which still scares me).

Percy Harvin (per Mayock)?  Wow!  Possibly more in time: Antonio Brown is 5'10".

I've been pounding the table for Braxton Miller, but Coleman could be better!  Same warts: Limited route tree, needs to refine outside game.

He's ready for the slot now, but they'll want him outside as soon as they can graduate him over there.  They need to get Hawkins in the game, and threaten the outside.

This has Jackson's fingerprints on it.  Coleman is a coverage dictator.  I do wish he was taller, but his height is adequate to make bucket throws over his head deep practical, and he does get great separation.

He's not perfect.  Big corners can reroute and jostle him to neutralize his speed advantage and maintain leverage on the outside.  Because of this, they probably will need to start him out inside a lot, where that's a lot harder for defensive backs to do.

If he's like Harvin, Hue can move him around a lot and use him like he'd use Braxton Miller.  

Coleman isn't just a vertical threat (although that flat out speed is critical to take the top off a defense), but lethal with the ball in his hands from anywhere on the field.

Once he's mastered all the routes and can defeat the press, he can be a consistent outside threat.

He's a great returner, too.  He's an overall upgrade over Travis Benjamin.

Clearly, Hue Jackson isn't as impressed by Paxton Lynch as I am.  

When the trade from eight to fifteen was announced, I thought Sashi got fleeced.  I still think he should have got more in return.

Upon further reflection, that third rounder is at the top of the round, and the second rounder next season could be in the top twenty.  It could have been better, but isn't too bad.

Tonight, Sashi has a great opportunity to trade that top pick in round two and get more good stuff.  There are a bunch of really good players hanging around that he could still get after moving down.

I'm not unhappy at all that Joe Thomas wasn't traded.  I love Big Joe and the fact that the Browns Quarterback won't get pulverized as badly as he would have been.

Joe will come in very handy with the younger offensive linemen, and his retention sends a positive message to the other guys.

...and now that I've said all that, stand by for a trade after all.

At any rate, wide receiver isn't fully resolved yet, but I'm as happy as everybody else that they added a big play guy with game-changing talent there.

And they still have TERRELL PRYOR dammit so this could get real scary for opposing defenses even as it is.

The remaining players include Myles Jack, Reggie Ragland, Noah Spence WHOA really?  Spence?  Holy crap!  Kevin Dodd, Derrick Henry, Jason Spriggs...just some really good players.

Spence I can't believe.  You want a real linebacker who can rush the quarterback?  He could be the best one in this draft. 

At any rate, you can see how they could still get a really good player after a trade down.