NFL Draft 2017: 5 reasons why Mitch Trubisky could be No. 1 pick

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Jan 13, 2016; Berea, OH, USA; Cleveland Browns new head coach Hue Jackson (left) and Vice President of Football Operations Sashi Brown talk during a press conference at the Cleveland Browns training facility. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports /

1. The plan was to take a QB all along

The Browns cannot win for losing. The point of tearing the roster down to the studs was to get the first overall pick. The purpose was to pick a sure fire bona fide franchise quarterback with that pick.

People who say the Browns are cursed point to situations like this as proof.

The Browns need a quarterback to turn things around. It just so happens that the best quarterback in the draft is from Northeast Ohio and wants to play for the Browns. It all seems too good to be true because only in Cleveland can earning the first overall pick lock the team out of the best quarterback in the draft.

If the Browns had the second pick in the draft, nobody would bat an eye at them taking Mitchell Trubisky. The storyline by itself makes it a scene from a great movie. Can’t you just see it? Trubisky rides in on his horse to whip his posse into shape. Then he takes them out to tame wild wild AFC North. It is the perfect story.

But the Browns have the first pick and cannot pass up a once in a lifetime generational player like Myles Garrett. Or can they?

If the Browns take Trubisky, it is because it was the plan all along. Lose the games. Get the franchise quarterback. Then build the team around him. And it just so happened that the potential franchise quarterback is from Cleveland and wants to play for the Browns.

Now that the “why” is parsed, Cleveland Browns Executive VP of Football Operations Sashi Brown and gang need to go boldly into the NFL Draft and pick whoever is the best player for the Cleveland Browns. If that player turns out to be Mitchell Trubisky, at least the question of “why” makes more sense.

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