{"id":645534,"date":"2026-05-03T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645534\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:02:10","slug":"browns-get-2026-nfl-drafts-highest-grade-from-respected-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645534\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns get 2026 NFL draft’s highest grade from respected analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a great draft class in 2025 that produced the defensive rookie of the year on paper, the Cleveland Browns<\/a> had another great class this year. Their first four picks are all guys who were in the top 31 overall on my 2026 NFL draft<\/a> big board.<\/p>\n

One of the best in the industry, Trevor Sikkema, the host of the NFL Stock Exchange<\/a>, agrees, giving the Browns<\/a> class an A+; it was the only A+ he gave out this year. He joined 92.3 The Fan to talk about the class and said that his favorite pick was wide receiver Denzel Boston in the second round.<\/p>\n

“This is the only A+ draft that I had. I guess my favorite’s Denzel Boston. You fast forward the clock a year or two years from now, I bet KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston are the WR1 and WR2. I think they’re building the whole passing attack around these guys…and you throw Harold Fannin Jr<\/a> in there as well”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: Browns get 2026 NFL draft’s highest grade from respected analyst<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a great draft class in 2025 that produced the defensive rookie of the year on paper, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1724,158909,86400,27295,189534,514,82,161275],"class_list":["post-645534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-denzel-boston","tag-draft-class","tag-harold-fannin-jr","tag-kc-concepcion","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-trevor-sikkema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}