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April 30, 2014ESPN’s Todd McShay published the fifth edition of his educated guess on where the new batch of NFL players will be drafted. McShay predicted that the Browns will grab former Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel with their first selection in the first round, number four overall, but doesn’t exactly sound very sure of it.
Later in the first round, McShay predicts the Browns will take Indiana wide receiver Cody Latimore.
In his previous mocks, McShay has flip-flopped between the Browns grabbing QB Blake Bortles and Manziel at number four. He has consistenly given them a WR at 26, but the player has changed each time. In version 4 it was Kelvin Benjamin from Florida State.
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I’m not gonna act like I know anything about Latimer so I can’t comment on that.
But I’m still enamored with the idea of landing Manziel+Evans somehow. Even if it means trading down and then back up, it would be a solid start.
Watkins would be great but I think Evans compliments Gordon moreso than Watkins. Having Evans/Cameron in the red zone would be killer.
After that, just go CB and G and I’ll be happy.
In McShay’s Mock Draft 12.0, after reviewing more tape, we’ll be picking Fred Forklorkus, WR, Montana Snow Survival School.
at least we know he won’t have an issue in December
http://www.nwsos.com/public/survival/cold.html
McShay’s editor: What can you do to drive up page clicks? These people are bored of the same names up at the top.
McShay: Can I interest you in a Cody Latimer? He’s a mid-round prospect that should never go in the 1st round, but we can spin it as we are smarter than every mock to this point (including our own)! He’s from Indiana, so some people will even believe that I never got around to looking at this tape until now.
McShay’s editor: Sold! And, if you can get him arrested for a DUI within 12hrs of you posting, then you’ll get that bonus we discussed.
Exactly! -And next time we’ll simply make up names!!! At No. 26, the Browns select: Lefty McLeftwich (or was that Righty McRightwich?).
I don’t bother reading many mocks because they’re based on rank speculation and attention-seeking, but curious .. does this guy keep predicting Browns take a QB at #4 because they need a QB?
This all smells like Geno Smith Part II. The closer to the draft, the more QBs are “moving up the board.” [Whose board? The analysts’ exciting boards].
We have top men working on it right now.
Who?
TOP men.
The longer this interminable Silly Season drags on, the more convinced I become that front offices rate all these QBs much lower than the media and the mockers do.
I wouldn’t be surprised if most, if not all, of the Big Four drop out of the top ten, and we’ll probably see a Quinnish fall into the 20s for a couple of them.
At least I hope so.
Overhead by a WFNY secret ninja cam at an office poker game in Farmer’s office in Berea…
So, McShay calls me and sez…”Ray, what do you think of Lattimer?”
And I say…”Yeah, he looks very impressive. We may take him high, but that’s just between us, ok.”
Mike…who the hell’s Lattimer?! Bwahahahaha….
so youre saying espn is playing chess while cle-dot-com is playing checkers?
Look at the dudes tape? Latimer is unreal. If not injured at combine he would have always been in the top group. He plays for Indiana and is by far the most talented player in that program. He is a wonderful fit across from Gordon.
Why the hate for Latimer? He is a great player
The joke’s not about Latimer. 😉
Cle-dot-com is playing Mousetrap…
makes sense. cle-dot-com like mousetrap never seems to work like it’s supposed to.
my post was merely mocking that McShay is trying to get us to believe that he hadn’t looked at Latimer’s tape until now. his ENTIRE job is to watch prospects and write profiles. if he had not watched Latimer until 2 weeks before the draft, then he should be fired on the spot.
Latimer is a nice enough mid-round prospect. I do like his initial burst after the catch. But, he drops too many, rounds off his routes, and got caught from behind too often. In the 4th round or so, he’s a good risk to take. In the 1st round, you should be getting a much more sure thing.
“NFL GMs Frantically Studying Bleacher Report Slideshow On Top College Prospects”
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nfl-gms-frantically-studying-bleacher-report-slide,35858/
right. That’s why I scoff at headlines – including on this site – that a player is “moving up/moving down the board.” Every year immediately following the draft we say “the draft experts knew nothing about what teams intended to do.” And by the next April we forget that and swallow these reports all over again.