LEAP OF DRAFT FAITH CONCERNING JOHN DORSEY

By STEVE KING

The NFL Draft has changed a lot – a while heckuva lot, in fact – over the years.

In that respect, then, this is not even your dad’s draft, and certainly not that of your grandfather.

But in another aspect, this is their draft as much as it is yours, as the same timeless questions continue to swirl around the draft. That is, what teams will trade up in the first round on the opening day of this year’s three-day draft on April 25 to get a player they really want, or, in the case of clubs such as the Browns, who have no first-round picks and won’t select until the middle of the second round at No. 49, which teams will trade up into the first round to get a player?

I think there’s a real chance – perhaps even a really good chance – that the Browns will make a move to get back up into the first round. In fact, I will go out on a limb – if you can rally call it that — that the Browns will indeed make such a trade.

Why?

For two reasons, really.

First of all, a trade to move up into the first round, or even just to move up in the first round, is a daring move. It takes some real guts. And Browns General Manager John Dorsey is, as he has proven time and time again, a daring guy with some real guts. He isn’t afraid at all to push the envelope. To do so is in his DNA.

Dorsey comes from the school of thought – the same one from which everybody in sports hails – that if a team isn’t getting better, or at least trying to do so, then it’s getting worse. There is no standing pat, for to do nothing is to regress.

So Dorsey, knowing that the Browns need a few top-tier young players, not just a bunch of pretty good ones, will make a trade to go up and get his guy in the first round.

But who? Or at least at what position?

Those are two great questions.