Chiefs and Browns make first trade of 2026 draft and both eventually fill needs

The Cleveland Browns, rumored to beryllium consenting to waste and acquisition down from their No. 6 wide action successful nan 2026 NFL draft, did conscionable that Thursday evening erstwhile nan traded nan prime to nan Kansas City Chiefs.

Cleveland traded nan sixth wide prime successful nan first information of nan 2026 NFL Draft to nan Chiefs, successful speech for nan ninth wide pick, arsenic good arsenic prime No. 74 successful nan 3rd information and No. 148 successful nan 5th round.

The Browns now clasp nan No. 9 and No. 24 picks successful nan first information of nan draft. They person a full of 11 picks successful nan 2026 NFL Draft.

Quarterbacks Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson of nan Cleveland Browns watch from nan sidelines during a crippled against nan Cincinnati Bengals astatine Huntington Bank Field successful Cleveland, Ohio, connected Sept. 7, 2025. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)

So nan Chiefs gave up 3 picks successful making nan first waste and acquisition of nan first round.

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And we cognize what nan instrumentality bases of some clubs were reasoning anterior to nan selection:

Chiefs fans were reasoning we cognize thing they don't. And past nan Chiefs selected cornerback Mansoor Delane from LSU -- a move nary uncertainty forced by nan club's waste and acquisition of Pro Bowl cornerback Trent McDuffie to nan Los Angeles Rams earlier successful nan offseason.

So, nan Chiefs capable a awesome need, assuming Delane is so nan value area they believe.

LSU Tigers CB Mansoor Delane celebrates a protect extremity against nan Clemson Tigers astatine Memorial Stadium successful South Carolina. (Ken Ruinard/USA TODAY Network)

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ESPN's Mel Kiper didn't for illustration nan pick, by nan way. He had Delane arsenic nan 14th best subordinate successful nan draft.

"It was a necessity," ESPN expert Louis Riddick, a erstwhile NFL protect back, responded.

Browns fans weren't reasoning that way.

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They were astir apt reasoning thing akin to "We screwed up."

This is understandable because they're Browns fans and this could person been the Browns Browning.

Well, nan Browns, moving down 3 slots, gave up a changeable to draught linebacker Sonny Styles of Ohio State to nan Washington Commanders, receiver Jordyn Tyson to nan New Orleans Saints and past nan Browns sewage their chance pinch nan recently acquired No. 9 pick:

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Offensive tackle Spencer Fano of Utah.

Cleveland Browns wide head Andrew Berry speaks astatine nan NFL Scouting Combine astatine nan Indiana Convention Center successful Indianapolis, Ind., connected Feb. 24, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

Fano is good. And he makes nan Browns violative statement instantly amended because he's going to apt commencement astatine near tackle for them.

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So what will Browns fans deliberation of this pick?

They'll astir apt wonderment why nan Browns didn't prime Miami's Francis Mauigoa, who went pinch nan No. 10 prime to nan New York Giants and promised "to dice for" Jaxson Dart if necessary. They'll wonderment this because Browns fans expect nan worst.