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Here are your hosts, Kim Carman, Nathan Zagura, and Tyvis Powell.

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Get ready for the 2026 NFL draft.

I know a lot of people are in Pittsburgh, but we're here in Berea, and we will be with you all night, all throughout night one of the 2026 NFL draft. I know a lot of people are in Pittsburgh, but we're here in Berea, and we will be

with you all night, all throughout night one of the 26 NFL draft. Good evening, friends, Ken Kramer alongside of Tyvis Powell and Nathan's girl. I'm going to let Nathan get ready here for just a second because he was doing to work on news five. All right, I want to make sure. I want to make sure because I just saw you up there on TV. That's right. And I want to make sure you had all

plenty of time to get all your rods and cones ready for this wonderful sure. I want to make sure because I just saw you up there on TV. That's right. And I want to make sure you had all plenty of time to get all your rods and cones ready for

this wonderful draft. I am ready. We got different shades of blue around the table. Here we're all ready to go. Time is looking fantastic. Good to be with you. Good to be with you, Monfrere. Good feeling. And let's go. I mean, I know a lot of people have a lot of opinions clearly about what they want to see the Browns do here tonight.

I got opinions. So do I. Ours happen to be the same, which is fun. We'll see if Tyvus agrees with us as we go on here. But it's going to be fun. Two first round picks, opportunity to get better. And I think it's just imperative that at least one of these guys, because it's never a sure thing, even in the

first round, but the one of these guys is a cornerstone, somebody that when we opened the new stadium, the new Huntington Bank Field in 2029, then they're in the last year of the rookie contract, they're on the side of the building. They're about to get a big contract extension. They are a pillar of what this Browns team is going to be. Tyvis, what are you thinking going into this draft?

Because it's a different draft than some of the other star-studded ones we've seen today.

I kind of want to come away with a couple of solid players that I think are going to help us for the next five to eight years. Yeah, I think everybody, if you ask any Browns fan or any of us, I think everybody's kind of in agreement that you want to see them take a wide receiver and a tackle. Doesn't matter really what order it is. You just kind of want those first two picks to be that. Obviously, you listen to Andrew Berry talk earlier this year, and he wanted to focus on the offensive side of the ball. He's kind of seemed like he's got the defense kind of in the place he wants it to be. So you think he wants to look more on that offensive side of the ball. So hopefully, you know, those first two picks are on the offensive side of the ball and can help the Browns get to where they want to go. Well, because that defense was a top unit again in 2025. You looked at the way that they played throughout that season. It was a fantastic unit front and back. And the linebacker certainly a lot better, Carson-Swessinger, one of your early young leaders on this football team. So you looked at the way that defense played. And, you know, Nathan, it goes without saying. And I listen to you and Andrew throughout every one of those games where I sat in my office watching on TV. And it was a really difficult season, frustrating because, you know, you saw that there were times where you could seize a game, but your offense just couldn't get across the goal line the way that it wanted to. That's going to have to be addressed here over the next three days. Tyvis knows. You know, I've been saying for, we got weapons. We need people who can score the football. You've been saying it for about three years now. Go back to 2014. I wanted Allen Robinson to be a Cleveland Brown. We could go way back. But this is a football team. This is a football team right now that's in a division with the Bengals and Joe Burrow and Jemar Chase and T. Higgins. It's in a division with the Baltimore Ravens. And there are rumors right now that the Ravens are making another big splash. But even at the minimum, they've got a two-time MVP in Lamar Jackson.

They've got Derek Henry.

They got Pro Buller and Zay Flowers, a multiple-time Pro Buller and Mark Anders. Rashad Bateman's had nice seasons for them. They can score with anybody. And then you've got now a Pittsburgh Steelers team that's got, you know, we assume Aaron Rogers is going to come back. We don't know that, but it feels that way. that went out and they went and got Michael Pittman to add to D.K. Metcalf. And so they've got weapons as well. And so you're going to have to be able to score with these teams. It's just an easier path to victory when you can score. And so that's what I want to see this team do. You know, it's interesting about Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, The Browns beat them in the last two times.

They did.

The last two games of the season. And, you know, for us to say that, we want them to really enhance the offense. They did it with the group of guys. And it wasn't like Pittsburgh went out there and played. Pittsburgh wanted to win. It was a, they were trying to get into the playoffs. It was a meaningful game. and the Browns went out there and handled business

with the personnel that they had.

Cincinnati, Joe Burrell was out there,

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