An especially interesting ESPN site gives rankings before and after. Lets see ..Browns .. before the draft were at ’30″.. ,(Ravens moved up and Steelers moved up.).
the Browns after the draft.. is.. ’30′.. NO CHANGE… duh

Last time a RB was picked up in the first round was…. Reggie Bush.. 2006… (same year Vince Young was picked)

It’s a passing league now.. and WR should have been grabbed ‘first’ or at least offense lineman.. and with Cleveland grabbing a QB at spot 22 , the best offense lineman FELL right into the Steelers lap, Big Ben had to fall off his bar stool !

And with rival North division teams (Ravens and Steelers with top rated defense, T-Rich will be like his former ALabama RB drafted last year.. now with New Orleans, even was a Heisman Trophy winner in his sophmore year. Oh.. he had not even 500 yards rushing as Drew threw a ton of passes. ! lol

Browns.. (alias… Clowns)

ahhh yeah.. the Bucs want to move up.. ahhh yeah.. they want RB.

(never mind they were the worst defense in the league).. oh BTW, they picked a Safety.

Read other posts.. RB are not that critical in this pass happy league, let only moving up for one, let only picking ALabama.. go study Mark Ingram, Heisman Trophy winner sophmore year, Championship team BUT picked in 2nd round by New Orleans.. oh.. 2011 stats.. less than 500 yards.

Yeah.. Holmgren… Vikings got back at you (from Green Bay).. they (Vikings) still got to be laughing

1. The Browns have enough needs that zeroing in on one player is myopic, especially since RB wasn’t even their biggest need.

2. RBs are the most expendable position on a football team, so there’s no reason to draft a RB higher than the second half of the first round.

3. They got impatient and traded up one position with a team that didn’t even need who they wanted.

4. Just because you have a lot of draft picks doesn’t mean you should throw them around. If you were a billionaire, would you burn stacks of $20 bills in the fireplace just because?

5. If you’re worried that somebody else could have traded above you for Richardson, refer to #1 above.

6. Trading up is seldom necessary, and the best teams seldom do it. One team in particular stayed put and managed to draft David DeCastro.

13 picks is a lot.

Maybe the Browns can work on joining the rest of the NFL by having cheerleaders and a logo instead of having an orange blob on FOX when they show the scores, wasn’t till years ago they finally put up a ring of honor with famous players inside the stadium.
Clueless franchise with Lerner as an owner.

Oh and @7thlombardiontheway – the Steelers have still been bad more than they have been good. It took them 40 years to even get to the playoffs even when there were hardly any teams in the league. They weren’t so great in the 80s either when the Bengals & Browns owned the division for the most part.

The Browns gave up 143. Way under value to move from 4 to 3.

It seemed like the Vikes didn’t want to move to 5 and risk losing their guy, and the Browns had fears that Tampa would ruin their party. So they conpromised.

So as the dust settles, it is truly a good deal for both teams.

Reminds me of the idiotic move by Butch Davis to trade up 1 spot to draft the chosen one. Thank God for the Buckeyes.

Thank you Browns…

Plus it now makes others want to jump to take the next 3 prospects (Claiborne, Kalil and Blackmon). Who else will look desperate?

Does it bother you that you were swept last season, Tebow’d out of the playoffs by a backup QB? Turd.