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Cleveland Browns won't pick until draft's fourth round, but for GM Phil Savage, that's not such a bad thing
Friday, April 18, 2008Tony Grossi
Plain Dealer Reporter
In his fourth year as Browns general manager, Phil Savage reached a personal watershed.
"I've already done two things that, at least in my mind, I felt I would never do sitting in this chair," he said during a respite at NFL league meetings three weeks ago. "One was to take a receiver in the top five, and the other was to trade away the first day of your draft."
Savage is an avowed draftnik who feels more comfortable beating the bushes of the deep South to scout college players than mingling with billionaire owners at lavish resorts.

Nobody will have a more empty feeling than him on April 26 when the first two rounds of the NFL draft go by without the Browns making a pick. And then he will have to sit through the third round on April 27 and most of the fourth before announcing the Browns' first selection at No. 122.
The draft drought, of course, is the result of trades for quarterback Brady Quinn last year and defensive linemen Corey Williams and Shaun Rogers this year.
The Browns have never before been so depleted on draft day.
But it's happened with other teams, a lot more than you think. Seventeen times previously since 1970.
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