Arguably the greatest moment in NFL draft history was in 2014, when the Browns’ general manager, motivated by a less-than-subtle threat from ownership, traded the team’s next three first-round draft picks to the Seahawks in order to move up to the No. 1 pick and select a franchise quarterback a mere 12 hours before the event was set to begin.
But then, after realizing in the hours leading up to the draft that the quarterback was kind of a jerk (and had P. Diddy as an agent—Yikes!), decided to take an undersized pass rusher with off-field concerns (a phrase that feels relative now that P. Diddy is in the mix) at No. 1, despite the fact that few other teams had that edge rusher graded as a first-round prospect. In his pocket was a note—Vontae Mack No Matter What—indicating that he was going to pick the undersized edge regardless of whether or not he traded up.
