Where: Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, Chicago
When: 8 p.m.
TV: ESPN, NFL Network
Radio: 92.3 The Fan (7 p.m. - 12 a.m.)
Draft order:
- Tampa Bay
- Tennessee
- Jacksonville
- Oakland
- Washington
- New York Jets
- Chicago
- Atlanta
- New York Giants
- St. Louis
- Minnesota
12. CLEVELAND
- New Orleans
- Miami
- San Francisco
- Houston
- San Diego
- Kansas City
19. CLEVELAND (From Buffalo)
- Philadelphia
- Cincinnati
- Pittsburgh
- Detroit
- Arizona
- Carolina
- Baltimore
- Dallas
- Denver
- Indianapolis
- Green Bay
- New Orleans (From Seattle)
- New England
Set your stopwatch: Teams receive 10 minutes per pick in the first round. It drops to seven minutes in the second round and five minutes from the third-sixth. The NFL is speeding things up for the seventh round, dropping the time between picks from five to four minutes. Teams also have four minutes with their compensatory picks.
Sitting it out: Buffalo and Seattle are the only teams without a first-round pick. The Bills sent theirs to Cleveland last year in a deal that allowed them to move up from No. 9 to No. 4 and land wide receiver Sammy Watkins. The Seahawks sent theirs to New Orleans in March as part of a trade that saw tight end Jimmy Graham go to Seattle and center Max Unger land with the Saints.
Trade winds?: The Browns have made trades in three of the last four first rounds, including three in last year's alone. Though Cleveland doesn't have the most picks in this year's draft -- Seattle boasts 11 -- it has the most tradeable assets because none of its picks are compensatory, which are unable to be traded.
Busy Saturday?: Cleveland largely sat out the final day of last year's draft, as it carried just one pick beyond the third round. This year could be a different story, though, as it boasts six Day 3 picks thanks to trades with the Bills and Ravens. The Browns made seven Day 3 picks in 2012, a haul that included wide receiver Travis Benjamin and defensive lineman Billy Winn.
Offense or defense?: Since the Browns returned as a franchise in 1999, they've selected a defensive player with their first pick eight times and an offensive player eight times. Defensive players have been the first pick in four of the last five years while Cleveland went with offense four straight years from 2002-2005.
Notable no-shows: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell could be very lonely during the first part of the draft. Quarterbacks Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota and wide receiver Amari Cooper declined invitations to attend the draft. It's plausible that the first player to walk across the stage will be the No. 4 pick. The last time Cleveland selected a player in the first round who wasn't attending the draft was quarterback Brandon Weeden in 2012.
So who's there?: A total of 27 players are currently in Chicago for tonight's festivities. It's unlikely all 27 will be first-round picks.
Arik Armstead, DL, Oregon
Vic Beasley, DE/LB, Clemson
Landon Collins, S, Alabama
Bud Dupree, LB, Kentucky
Cameron Erving, OL, Florida State
Dante Fowler, DE/LB, Florida
Melvin Gordon, RB Wisconsin
Randy Gregory, DE/LB, Nebraska
Todd Gurley, RB, Georgia
D.J. Humphries, OL, Florida
Kevin Johnson, CB, Wake Forest
Byron Jones, CB, Connecticut
Benardrick McKinney, LB, Mississippi State
Cedric Ogbuehi, OT, Texas A&M
DeVante Parker, WR, Louisville
Andrus Peat, OL, Stanford
Breshad Perriman, WR, Central Florida
Shane Ray, DL, Missouri
Brandon Scherff, OL, Iowa
Danny Shelton, DL, Washington
Devin Smith, WR, Ohio State
Donovan Smith, OT, Penn State
Jaelen Strong, WR, Arizona State
Laken Tomlinson, OL, Duke
Trae Waynes, CB, Michigan State
Kevin White, WR, West Virginia
Leonard Williams, DL, USC