The 2017 NFL Draft is over – barely so, as they’re still cleaning up the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the event was held – and already a lot of so-called experts are saying this could be the moment when the Browns’ total rebuild began to really take a big step forward.

That’s not surprising, because the Browns seemed to do just about everything right.

Oh, sure, there were some issues. I still content they traded down too far early in the first round on Thursday night, going from No. 12 all the way to No. 25 after a trade with the Houston Texans. In doing so, they missed out on a number of big-time prospects.

But other than that, it went pretty smoothly. Indeed, for as many blunders as they’ve made in any draft in this expansion era, the Browns made that many excellent choices this time .

Or so it seems.

No one really knows for sure yet. It will take a while before there can be any legitimate grade handed out. We have to wait for these players to rise and fall and end up what, who and where they’ll be as pros, thus adding up to an average.

Right now, any grade is bogus. I understand all the angst of the society in which we live in wanting to have everything right now — at this very minute – or else, but grading a draft before the players even don shoulder pads for the first time is like doing a food critic doing a restaurant review seconds after he orders his meal.

That’s goofy. That’s impossible.

More importantly, that really is a waste of time.

The proof is in the pudding. It’s in the productivity of these guys not just in several games, but in several seasons. And the first of those seasons is still a long way off.

Having said, though, there’s no discounting the fact that a perception that the Browns really got it right is a whole heckuva lot better than a perception that they really got it wrong.

Plus there’s the fact that most experts think the other three teams in the AFC North, the Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers, also really got it right. So instead of cutting the gap between themselves and their rivals, perhaps the Browns only kept pace.

But that’s OK, too, because the Browns can’t control what those teams do. They can control only what they do.

And what they did this weekend passed the eye test with flying colors.