NFL Draft: Browns mit dem ersten Pick

Der Nummer 1 Pick war bis zur letzten Runde hart "umkämpft". Cleveland schickte sich an, gegen die mit einer B-Mannschaft und bereits fix fürs Playoff qualifizierten Pittsburgh Steelers den zweiten Sieg in Serie zu schaffen, am Ende unterlag das Team aus Ohio aber den Steelers knapp mit 24:27 und blieben damit das schlechtestes Team der abgelaufenen NFL-Saison.
Ihnen auf den Fersen waren die San Francisco 49ers, die zwei Saisonsiege einfahren konnten und sich danach von Head Coach Chip Kelly und General Manager Trent Baalke trennten. Damit werden die 49ers 2017 mit dem vierten Head Coach in vier Saisonen antreten.
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The draft order is determined by the following procedures: 
(A)       The Super Bowl champion will select last and the loser of the Super Bowl next-to-last in all rounds, regardless of the record of such participating clubs in the regular season. 
(B)       The losers of the Conference Championship games shall select 29th and 30th in all rounds, according to the reverse order of their standing. 
(C)       The losers of the Divisional playoff games shall select in the 25th through 28th positions in all rounds, according to the reverse order of their standing. 
(D)       The losers of the Wild Card games shall select in the 21st through 24th positions in all rounds, according to the reverse order of their standing. 
(E)       Clubs not participating in the playoffs shall select in the first through 20th positions in all rounds, according to the reverse order of their standing. 
If, after all the foregoing procedures have been applied, ties still exist in any grouping except (A) above, such ties shall be broken by figuring the aggregate won-lost-tied percentage of each involved club’s regular season opponents and awarding preferential selection order to the club which faced the schedule of teams with the lowest aggregate won-lost-tied percentage. 
If ties still exist, the divisional or conference tie-breaking method, if applicable, shall be applied.  If neither the divisional nor the conference tie-breaking methods are applicable, ties shall be broken by a coin flip. 
Indianapolis and Minnesota have the same strength-of-schedule, and neither the divisional nor the conference tie-break applies; therefore, the tie for the 14th and 15th positions will be determined by a coin flip.
2017 FIRST ROUND DRAFT ORDER 

​*- Subject to Playoffs
​^- The 14th and 15th selections will be decided by coin flip