Browns NFL draft place: 2 Christmas Day video games may impression slotting

The Cleveland Browns 2022 NFL season formally now not has playoff hopes. The 1% likelihood that they’d, principally, since dropping to the Cincinnati Bengals, went out the window with their loss to the New Orleans Saints.

Now, the most effective factor the crew can hope for is to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 18 and never end final within the division. That shouldn’t be a excessive precedence, getting Deshaun Watson prepared and maintaining a number of key gamers wholesome for 2023 must be.

The NFL draft additionally has misplaced some luster for Browns followers because the crew traded away a ton of draft picks to amass Watson together with their very own first and third-round picks this upcoming 12 months. They may get a third-rounder as a compensatory choice and have a few further mid-round picks because of trades.

Going into Christmas Day, Cleveland is one in every of eight groups formally eradicated from the playoffs. They’re the one a kind of groups to have greater than 5 victories. With three video games Sunday and one on Monday, the crew’s draft slotting after Week 16 could possibly be impacted by two video games:

Inexperienced Bay vs Miami – A Packers loss would tie them with the Browns at 6-9, a win would put them at 7-8.

Tampa Bay vs Arizona – The Buccaneers are additionally 6-8 going into this sport whereas the reeling Cardinals are 4-10. Each groups could possibly be close to the Browns on the finish of the 12 months however, for slotting after Week 16, a Tampa win is what would assist Cleveland.