DawgTalkers.net Forums The Archives 2022 NFL Season 2022 NFL Draft Jerome Ford, running back, selected with the 156th pick

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I would have taken Smith .... who the Seahawks happily grabbed 2 picks after us.

I don't understand a couple of our picks ...... :crazt:

Exactly
I don't get this one

Looks like a good RB... Wonder if it means Hunt or Johnson are definitely gone.

I wouldn’t have thought RB would be a draft need for us…

It’s not. They are just taking the best players.

Might replace D'Ernest Johnson if they let him go or toss him on the PS.

Certainly raises that suspicion

Crazy that he looks a lot like Nick Chubb.

A former bama back who couldn;t get play time.

I like the pick. I think this could signal Felton moving to the WR room...or opens Hunt as trade bait.

Hunt is a huge trade chip... Offers much more upside to a team that doesn't have a Nick Chubb and is worthy of a 2nd round pick.

Good player, but the RB was not an area of need.

Since it appears we're eating some/most of Baker's contract this year combined with the money spent on Watson - it's pretty obvious to me that we're officially in cap saving mode. Cut dollars wherever and whenever you can.

So we draft a CB (rookie deal) and trade away Troy Hill (save that $$$)

Now we draft a RB (rookie deal) - so who is gone Hunt or Johnson? My bet is on Hunt. Saves money and likely gets us some future picks back.

As much as I dislike the idea of losing Hunt as a 1b to Chubb - a RB room of Chubb/Johnson/Ford with Felton as a hyrbrid still probably works as long as our OLine and passing game are clicking.

This pick was made with an eye toward the next year or two. He will be a replacement for Kareem or D' Ernest.

We'll relinquish our rights to Johnson. That saves us almost $2.5 million. (I don't remember the exact amount, but that's close.

This could be more of an insurance/future pick. Hunt and Johnson are both coming on the final year of their contract. Felton’s value will be as a receiver. Ford is a talented player who should’ve went a lot sooner than he did. May not see much this year but appreciate it the 2023 season and beyond.

But he's probably not as good of a player as D'Ernest Johnson, or even that Pre season dude with all the carries last year by the Browns.

He looks slow, from a basketball school. Ford probably shouldn't even have been picked and shouldn't make the roster.

Exactly. He's a carbon copy of Johnson.

And Hunt

Right. Does anyone know his 40 time?

I seriously don't think I've ever seen you say anything good about anything the Browns have done. Obviously no one should agree with everything, but the dude is a mid 5th who was the top RB in the ACC and can catch passes too. Is Alabama a basketball school too, because that's who recruited him. And Cincinnati went to the playoffs, they're not a scrub team.

Berry thinking ahead. Hunt's replacement.

4.46 at the combine.

For comparisons's sake... Nick Chubb 4.52

Thanks Fate I looked it up too. Kareem's was 4.62 and D'Ernest was a 4.81. Take it as it is.

There is no such thing as a carbon copy of D'Ernest Johnson!

I'd warrant that Chubb's game speed is WAY faster than 4.52. Dude is 225lbs of fAST.

Good luck making your case here. Everyone knows, especially TL, that any pack after 104 is garbage, not different than an UDFA. And if the Browns FO picked him, he must be bad.

Who says?

Chubb, Hunt, Felton and Johnson.

It'll be an area of need after we trade Hunt for $$ relief. Gotta figure out a way to pay Baker and Watson somehow.

You mean Watson's $1 million salary + 9 million slary cap hit for 2022?

Whether Hunt is traded before this year or just not re-signed, Ford will be Chubb’s Robin in 2023

We currently have something like $18 million in cap space.

Over The Cap Today Team Cap Space: Cleveland Browns $27,722,501 and Remember June 1 $9,500,000 more will be added for Hooper and whatever we get when Baker is traded

The Troy Hill trade is going to take a few million off.