Great little series we continue today from Bob Fergus. In it, he takes a team by team look at the 2008 NFL Draft efforts of the Browns three division rivals in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati. Part one covered the STD capital of America. Today, the organization that wishes its biggest problem was some STDs. When you talk Bengal football, there are only two topics: How many points did they allow, or how many days of community service are the about to perform. Marvin Lewis set out to fix both issues in the 2008 Draft. How does Bob think he did?

Great little series we start running here tonight from Bob Fergus.  In it, he takes a team by team look at the 2008 NFL Draft efforts of the Browns three division rivals in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati.  He starts in the STD capital of America, where the Ravens rolled the dice big time by taking QB Joe Flacco (pictured) in the first round out of I-AA Delaware after being unable to move up to snag Matt Ryan.  The Ravens also landed a couple of other familiar names in Rutgers RB Ray Rice and Notre Dame S Tom Zbikowski.

A lot of Browns fans I talked to this week seemed to feel the Steelers did well this past weekend in landing Rashard Mendenhall (pictured) and Limas Sweed with their top two draft picks. Not Mitch though. He laughs at the fact they failed to address issues on their offensive line, and at the end of the day, doesn't think much of the drafts of the Ravens and the Bungles either. In his latest, Mitch takes a comical look at how he feels the Browns division foes fared in this past weekend's NFL Draft.

Fresh off a little break after a great season helping cover the Browns for us here on the site, Hiko is back bay-bee, and so is The Browns Outsider.  In it, Hiko focuses on the 2008 draft class of the Browns, mining every possible nugget of info from the web on these guys, and adding in his own commentary.  Hiko loves the Beau Bell pick, is wary of the Martin Rucker trade, and also hits on the QB situation now that it's apparent both Quinn and DA will be on the '08 roster.

Beau Bell, Martin Rucker, Paul Hubbard, Anthyba Rubin, and Alex Hall. These are your five new Cleveland Browns. And once again, GM Phil Savage was very proactive, trading up twice into the fourth round to take Bell and Rucker off the board, two players Phil believes can have a legitimate impact this season. In this reaction piece to the Browns draft, Bob Fergus looks at the new class, the nature and expected success rate of second day picks, and the still gaping hole at cornerback.

It's times like these when you can really appreciate how Browns general manager Phil Savage has gone about building the team.  And despite the words of Sam Wyche, this is one time to thank God you do live in Cleveland, or at least follow the Browns.  Gary Benz isn't a big fan of the recent maneuvering by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, and he writes about it for us in his latest.

Cleveland draft aficionados have devoured information about prospects who may be available late in the fourth round for the Browns first pick on Sunday ... but don't forget about our AFC North divisional rivals and what they may have up their sleeves for Saturday's first round.  In his latest piece, Bob Fergus takes a look at the biggest needs of our division rivals, and lists the players he would least like to see them select on Saturday.

If former Michigan offensive tackle Jake Long really wants to show some gratitude for the Miami Dolphins making him the number one pick in this year's NFL draft, he could start by sending a few hundred thousand of the 30 some million dollars he's getting in guaranteed money to Joe Thomas of the Cleveland Browns. If Thomas hadn't made such a lasting impact at left tackle in his rookie season, the Dolphins would still be negotiating with either Darren McFadden or Matt Ryan.

It wasn't long ago that the Browns were the laughing stock of the league.  But not anymore.  We are now the Sally Field's of the NFL, except we aren't annoying. They like us. They really like us. And why not?  The resurgence of the Browns, especially given what this franchise has been through, it's a great story.  And the NFL is eating it up.  We've been given the schedule of all schedules.  We're all gonna have to step our games up: players, coaches, sports bars and tailgaters. It must be a team effort with everyone taking their gap integrity. 

Last off-season, Phil Savage acted quickly and decisively to address the team's most glaring weakness - the offensive line.  This off-season, Phil used the same blitzkrieg attack to aggresively upgrade the unit most lacking with this year's Browns - the defensive line.  Savage dealt away the team's second and third round picks for Corey Williams and Shaun Rogers.  Will the strategy pay off?  Nick Allburn tackles the topic.

The NFL Draft. Normally a beacon of light for Browns fans beaten down after a long season of losing, this years draft has been rendered nearly meaningless to Clevelanders after Phil Savage traded away our top three selections for Brady Quinn, Corey Williams, and Shaun Rogers. That doesn't mean we're not thinking draft here at The Cleveland Fan though. In his latest, Bob Fergus takes a look at this coming weekend's draft and what direction the Browns may look in when they do finally go on the board.