The Cleveland Browns are one of the worst franchises in the NFL. They have had awful luck at the quarterback position. Cleveland has started 40 quarterbacks since returning to the league in 1999. The latest quarterback to start for the Browns was Bailey Zappe in Week 18 this season.

In the latest mock from our Christian D’Andrea — a top-five mini-mock — he had the Browns taking Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders at quarterback. But in Mel Kiper Jr.’s first mock of the year for ESPN, he had Sanders’ teammate Travis Hunter going to Cleveland and Sanders going to the New York Giants at No. 3.

Mel Kiper, draft expert for ESPN, has the Cleveland Browns passing on a quarterback for arguably the best player in the draft.

Longtime ESPN and college football analyst Mel Kiper Jr. has released his first mock draft of the 2025 NFL draft season. In the mock, he has the Browns selecting the reigning Heisman winner.

Of their picks in the final five rounds in the draft, only James Hudson III and Tony Fields II were on the roster in 2024. Hudson was the last of those players to play with the Browns, playing until Week 4 before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury.

Here we'll look at the players who should be among the Cleveland Browns' top NFL free agency targets as the 2025 offseason begins.

The Cleveland Browns' No. 2 overall pick has enough value that they should seriously consider trading it away.

With the Cleveland Browns owning the 2nd overall pick in the NFL Draft, people are discussing what they should do when pick #2 arrives on draft night. Some are in the camp of drafting a quarterback (the team needs one) with Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders or Miami QB Cam Ward.