The perfect draft

The perfect draftBATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA - OCTOBER 12: Grant Delpit #7 of the LSU Tigers tries for an interception against Freddie Swain #16 of the Florida Gators at Tiger Stadium on October 12, 2019 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Marianna Massey/Getty Images)

Posted By: County Sports Network April 26, 2020

The perfect draft – Browns draft wrap-up

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By STEVE KING

This is supposed to be an NFL Draft wrap-up story.

They are as numerous right now as specks of sand in the desert in that you can find them anywhere. This is ours.

These wrap-ups are, as named, supposed to summarize what happened with a team, in our case the Browns, over the three days of the draft.

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It’s kind of silly, really, in that no one has any idea how any of these players will turn out. Some high picks will be busts, and some low picks will become stars. It’s just the way it is. This player procurement thing – this scouting – is not an exact science.

I think – I THINK; again, I don’t know – that the Browns did pretty well. These young guys – Andrew Berry, Paul DePodesta and Kevin Stefanski – seemed to pass the acid test.

But – BUT – I am worried that the Browns are still woefully weak at linebacker, and in turn on defense overall. They have no impact linebackers – none whose presence is going to cause opposing offensive coordinators to lose sleep.

They have to do something about it. Those aforementioned young guys are smart. They know it, too. Let’s just hope they figure out how to correct it.

We’ll touch base on that later, perhaps in my next post.

But the bigger story here – right now, with the virtual set-ups for the 32 teams in the league still being broken down so houses can become homes again and not stages for the whole world to be lucky enough to see — is that the draft happened like it did, every single moment, and that it was wonderful. It helped to pull together, ever so much, a country that has been ripped apart by the seams – and muted – over the last six weeks by a virus.

We needed this, we being both football fans and those who have no idea how the game is played. It was fun, entertaining, numbing at times and so impactful that it touched all our souls.

Deeply.

It was the perfect draft at the perfect time.

Will there even be an NFL season? Who knows? And if there is a season, will it be any good? Who can say?

But what we do know – emphatically so — is that we just witnessed the perfect draft pulled off. It was the best in NFL history, one that will never – can never – be topped because of all kinds of things that have nothing to do with football.

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