The Cleveland Browns didn't have any first-round picks after trading their first-round pick to the New York Giants for Odell Beckham Jr., but that didn't mean they didn't try to acquire one on Thursday night. According to general manager John Dorsey, there were three guys the team was trying to trade up for, but the price was way too much, and the team decided to stay put for now.
“There were about three guys we were looking at we thought may help us; you know to get up to the position where they were acquired at that time, I thought the compensation was too rich to move that far,’’ Dorsey said via cleveland.com. “We’re in a position now, you know maybe you exercise a degree of patience in this and just see and we’ll start working tomorrow and we’re always going to work at this thing to see if we can get up there, but the compensation package was just too much for us as an organization.”
At times they thought they were close, but the other team would ask for a bit more, and the Browns would decide to back out.
“You know, you tried, but it takes two and every time we were trying, they'd kind of say, ‘Well, you need to kick in a little bit more,' and I wasn't willing to do that,’’ Dorsey said.
Dorsey wouldn't talk about what players the Browns were targeting because he didn't think it was appropriate, but chances are good one of the guys was Jeffery Simmons who was taken with the 19th overall pick by the Tennessee Titans.
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