With the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns will not select quarterback Josh Allen out of the University of Wyoming. At least that’s what Peter King of Sports Illustrated believes.
In his first-round mock draft ahead of this week’s draft, King wrote on The MMQB that one of his well-connected sources says the Browns will not take Allen with the top pick over USC quarterback Sam Darnold:
“We’re all prisoners of the people we know in this league. And someone I trust, who is very often right and is very well-connected, told me Sunday it’s not Allen [for the Browns].”
The notion of Allen going to the Browns has picked up significant steam over the past couple of weeks. This is despite the significant concerns surrounding Allen’s shaky accuracy. King himself contributed to this, as he reported that a “friend” of Browns GM John Dorsey said Allen was the team’s pick at No. 1. Dorsey also dropped a sizable hint about possibly favoring Allen due to the superior size of his hands compared to Darnold.
But apparently, those rumors may very well be all noise if King’s source is to be believed. While it makes some sense for the Browns to take Allen – someone who potentially has the higher upside and will have the chance to develop while Tyrod Taylor starts – he does have some significant bust potential due to his lack of accuracy.
As King himself notes, Darnold is a safe pick, most likely the safer of the two. And given the Browns’ catastrophic history with quarterbacks, no one would blame them if they opted to take him and his relatively higher floor over Allen’s higher ceiling at No. 1 overall. But with the draft now just a few days away, the wait to find out which quarterback the Browns ultimately pick won’t be that much longer.
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