For all the boxes ticked, the Browns skipped the loudest one: quarterback is exactly as bare as it was.

The cost of the Tate reach is exactly the players who went right after him. The trades cost them a sliver of value they did not need to spend.

It is a bet on later, and a defensible one for a team playing the long game. They came away with juice, if not much beef up front.

Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.