Browns Select David Bell

     The Cleveland Browns were down to their final third-round selection to find themselves some help at wide receiver and it appears that they did so with the choice of Purdue's David Bell.

This was the compensation selection given to the Browns for the Vikings hiring of Kwesi Adofo-Mensah as their general manager and the Browns will receive another pick at the end of the third round in the 2023 draft.

David Bell is a player that I really liked and when I did the Browns Persons of Interest post, I almost used Bell as the pictured player for the piece but I decided on the player that was unlikely to be available in Arkansas wide receiver Treylon Burks.

At six feet even, Bell doesn't have great speed, which is the difference between the first round and the third round, but otherwise has everything that you would like to see from a young receiver..

Bell's an excellent route runner that has top-notch hands and played against good opposition in the Big Ten with Purdue where Bell won the conference's receiver of the year award in 2021 when Bell caught 93 passes for over one thousand yards and six touchdowns.

Bell is expected to see plenty of playing time and be used in the slot and the inside as Jarvis Landry was used in the past.

Bell's toughness and catching ability make him a very safe pick and Bell should see plenty of playing time as a rookie.

I thought Bell was the best remaining receiver on the board and given Bell's similarities to Jarvis Landry, this could be the final blow in any hopes of Landry returning to the Browns.

I think Bell could be the possession receiver that every quarterback needs and will prove to be a very popular player in Cleveland.

I'm still not sure that I love the Browns trade down from 44 overall with Houston in a deal that brought Cleveland a third-rounder (Martin Emerson) and two fourth-rounders on the draft's final day.

The first of the two picks acquired from the Texans will be the third choice of the round and the Browns also have their own fourth-rounder (118) and the other pick added from Houston was originally Philadelphia's at 124, so the Browns will be quite active early on day three with three of the first eighteen picks.

I have a feeling that unless Andrew Berry loves a particular player with that third pick, Berry could possibly be willing to move that pick along in order to perhaps try to obtain a third-rounder in 2023 after trading their third to Houston in the DeShaun Watson trade.