Days after the Browns brought promise back to the franchise by selecting OL Spencer Fano, WR KC Concepcion, WR Denzel Boston and S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren with their first four picks in the 2026 NFL draft, they quickly dissolved any good feeling those selections brought.
The start of the Browns’ draft went so well they were even receiving the grade of “winner” by some analysts, a word that has not consistently been associated with the franchise since the late 1980s, if not the 1960s. Unfamiliar—and perhaps uncomfortable with this term—the Browns appear ready to make a move that would revert them back to their usual title of “loser.”
