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Welcome into this special edition of Cleveland Browns Daily. We're presented by Bally Bet. As always, official sports betting partner of your Cleveland Browns. Please bet responsibly. On this special edition, we are going to relive day one of the NFL draft, a day one of the NFL draft that saw us get our left tackle of the future, a wide receiver weapon of the future,

a lot of machinations in terms of the way that it happened. But the cool thing about this,

Zee, just big picture, 30,000 feet, you go back to the end of this season and we said,

got to get a tackle, offensive line help, got to have weapons. There were a bunch of things

that happened to get it there. But in the end, you got what you needed.

You absolutely needed to do two things in this draft, and that is buttress your tackle position and buttress the wide receiver room.

You did both on number night one.

And the best part about it, number one, the first night of the draft, the best part about it is when we look back at this with the benefit of the hindsight, we understand that they played this right. Now, they got a little bit of help. I think the Tennessee Titans helped the Cleveland Browns out by taking Carnell Tate off the board, not helped the sense for those of us like you and I who wanted Carnell Tate to be a Cleveland Brown, but it just made number one the path clear, and perhaps the path was already clear, but it eliminated the discussion of what about Carnell Tate from the equation. And so that allows you to focus on what are we going to go first? And the answer to that was going to be, we're going to go tackle first. And it turned out to be a very good move for a variety of reasons. The first of which is the Browns were able to go from six to nine and pick up an extra third and an extra fifth from Kansas City. Now, those would be picks that would come into play, especially the fact that you knew you had two thirds. That allowed you to trade back into the second round, get a manual McNeil Warren, which is considered a home run pick. But it also allowed you then move out of the third, pick up a future fourth, come back into the third and then get Austin Barber the tackle that you wanted there as the second tackle to that position. But the reason that it made so much sense is when you look at the way the draft played out after taking Spencer Fano with their first pick, six of the next 12 picks were offensive tackles. And so had the Browns gone receiver there, let's say they stayed at six and they like Jordan Tyson, they took Jordan Tyson. They would have had to give up a lot of assets to go from 24 up to the range to get a tackle that they would have wanted. They wouldn't have that extra third because Jordan Tyson, we know, went eighth, so he wouldn't have been there when he traded back to nine.

So it just all worked out exactly the way that they had hoped.

And the reality is the Browns get Spencer Fano and then they get a receiver that they're absolutely loved in Casey Concepcion.

And so from a first round standpoint, you get assets, an extra third, an extra fifth. You get the number one offensive lineman on your board. And then you get a receiver that they were absolutely thrilled to get. And the more that I think we learn about him, not the more, not only do you want to root for him, but you see that this is somebody with tremendous separation ability, tremendous skills as a receiver. And then you watch his tape and you say to yourself, you look at what his stats were and they were impressive. He could have had eight more touchdowns of 40 plus yards. Oh, yeah. I mean, their quarterbacks could not. He'd be there are, there are plays. This is not an exaggeration. There are plays where he is the only person on the all 22 and the

quarterback still can't get him the football. I know it. Yeah, it is. It worked out, you know,

you and I for much of the draft process, you know, weapon at six and let's go. They accomplished

everything that they needed to. And now, to your point, now that we have the ability to have hindsight, because even at 24, we were saying, boy, Denzel Boston at 24, give me that big receiver, you end up getting him at 39. And so it all just worked out the way that it did. It really was too much. And so now what we got a chance to do is get to know these guys a little bit. And you got a chance to talk to me. You're going to hear from them over the course the next couple of hours, but not only incredible football players, but incredible people, inspiring people.

Spencer Fano is a culture tornado.

It just is infectious.

Infectious energy.

Personality, it really is.

Like, he's just someone you want to be around uh and then casey

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