Complete NFL Draft grades for the Cleveland Browns (and 31 other teams)
By Chad Porto
After seven rounds, 32 teams and about 13 hours of televised content, let’s see how the Cleveland Browns and the other teams did in the 2020 NFL Draft
The NFL Draft is over and it’s time to look at how each and every one of the teams draft grades for all three days of this way-too-long event. This is the complete breakdown, not just for an individual day or round. Did the teams that need to step up do it?
Not every team was on the ball in this draft and others showed a surprising lack of focus, foresight, or just a basic understanding of what they need to do. Then there’s Jon Gruden who just has a history of being wrong so dang often. Each team will be laid out like in previous posts, as part of the overall divisional format; except one. The Cleveland Browns.
The Browns get their own page because this is a Cleveland-centric site and because I said so. The Browns are a team I have more to say about because I follow them far more regularly than I do the rest of the league. It’d be disingenuous to say that I have the time or patience to follow every team from every sport. I don’t. I only know what I know and what I know right now is draft talent; because I watched, read, and studied a lot of it over the last eight months.
Overall I think most teams found guys that should develop or could develop into the players that teams need but most times that’s far from the case. Most of these teams will be lucky to have two or three of the guys they just drafted on their squad in five years. That’s the reality of this process.
The hope is that you get one or two who can make a difference and a few others who can stick around. The hope for most of these players is to just make the team. That’s why it’s more important to look at what holes a team had, and what needs that team went to go get filled when judging on a final grade. It’s great if you got a talent graded as a second-round pick in the fourth round. All that means is he wasn’t a second-round pick and that he fell for a reason.
So let’s see how teams did filling those needs.