It's Mel Kiper wannabe season, and we're willing participants. In his latest column, Mansfield Lucas lays out two different five round mock drafts for the Browns. One indicating who he'd take off the board in each round. And another projecting what Phil Savage will actually do. With so many needs, it's going to be impossible for the Browns to address all of them this weekend. What direction should they go in? What direction will they go in?

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Thirty six quarterbacks have been taken in the top five selections of the draft over the last forty years. How have they ended up faring? Jesse Lamovsky is here to let us know. Starting in 1967, Jesse has gone back and chronicled every quarteback taken top five, in a desperate attempt to try and determine the boom/bust chances of JaMarcus Russell and Brady Quinn ... two players the Browns are rumored to have alot of interest in.

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Over the course of the the last couple decades, the NFL Draft has transformed from an administrative activity to an event. Two days of TV coverage. Months of analysis. Huge parties at Panini's downtown. Endless columns on websites like this one. In Gary Benz's latest, he talks about the circus the draft, and the "smokescreen season" leading into it has become.

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Just ten days until draft day, and I've refreshed my mock draft as we head down the home stretch. I've fully projected out the first two rounds, as well as every one of the Browns selections through the end of the draft. Who do I have us taking at the top of the first round? JaMarcus Russell? Brady Quinn? Joe Thomas? Adrian Peterson? Nope, nope, nope, and nope. A guy named Brown from Penn State? What?!?

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