Cleveland Browns draft profile: Paxton Lynch

The Cleveland Browns may look to select Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch in the 2016 NFL Draft.

With the rhetoric about whether the Cleveland Browns want Jared Goff or Carson Wentz with the second overall pick remaining ongoing and seemingly changing by the day, the Los Angeles Rams’ trade up to the number one overall pick could throw a cog in the Browns plan for what they planned to do for the number two pick.

Should their man go at one, it isn’t out of the question that Cleveland drops back in the first round to a more reasonable pick to get a quarterback like Paxton Lynch out of Memphis.

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While yes, the Browns have enough holes in their team to make Swiss cheese jealous, quarterback is still the most glaring, as it has been since 1999. Robert Griffin III is no team’s savior at this point, and while he could go out this season and surprise everybody, Hue Jackson’s affirmation that Cleveland would take a quarterback in this year’s draft only strengthens the case that Cleveland would move back if their top guy was not there at two.

For those saying that no matter who is at quarterback, they still would have no one to throw to, you are not wrong. The only difference between the two positions as they relate to the Browns, is that this is a deep receiving class, and to many draft analyst’s, after Paxton Lynch there is a large drop off in talent level with the remaining quarterbacks. And since drafting Lynch would likely only come after a trade down, that leaves Cleveland in prime position with the first pick in the second round to grab the top receiver available then.

Here’s a deeper look at Paxton Lynch and the potential impact he could bring to this Browns team.

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