Sashi Brown, Hue Jackson to speak at NFL Scouting Combine
By Thomas Moore
The Cleveland Browns will be keeping busy at the 2017 NFL Scouting Combine next week in Indianapolis.
The NFL announced on Friday the media availability of coaches and front office executives at its annual Scouting Combine, which will take place from Feb. 28 through March 6 in Indianapolis.
The Cleveland Browns will be represented as Sashi Brown, the team’s executive vice president of football operations, is scheduled to speak on March 1 at noon; while head coach Hue Jackson will get his turn in front of the media on March 2 at 9 a.m.
Randall Liu, the league’s director of football communications, released the full schedule on Twitter earlier in the day:
Full list of NFL head coaches/football executives scheduled to speak at 2017 Combine (check https://t.co/WQAAHBEgsT for updates) pic.twitter.com/pGcPdhPL3O
— Randall Liu (@RLiuCBS) February 24, 2017
Twenty-nine of the leagues 32 head coaches will take part in the media session, according to Pro Football Talk, with New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton and Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden skipping out on the fun.
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It will be a busy week for the Browns in Indianapolis as they check out the 330 players invited to the annual event. The Browns hold five of the draft’s first 65 selections and will pick twice in the first round – including at the No. 1 overall position for the first time since 2000.
While it is widely expected that the Browns will take Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett with the first selection in the draft, Cleveland will also have an opportunity to start evaluating the available quarterbacks to determine if their is one worth selecting on draft weekend.
That list includes Clemson’s Deshaun Watson, Notre Dame’s DeShone Kizer, Texas Tech’s Patrick Mahomes and North Carolina’s Mitch Trubisky.
The quarterback group will work out on March 4, according to NFL.com, and If Jackson starts to fall for one of those quarterbacks – or they make the “earth move” the way Robert Griffin III allegedly did during his tryout last year with Jackson – the draft plans of several fans may blow up.
The Browns may be busy on the contract front as well as March 1 is the deadline for teams to designate franchise or transition players, an option that Cleveland may use on wide receiver Terrelle Pryor.
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The 2017 NFL Scouting Combine will be televised exclusively by the NFL Network from March 3 through March 6.