Cleveland Browns news (4/18): Tick tock … the NFL Draft approaches.

AUBURN, ALABAMA - NOVEMBER 29: Quarterback Ty Simpson #15 of the Alabama Crimson Tide calls out to offensive lineman Kadyn Proctor #74 of the Alabama Crimson Tide during their game against the Auburn Tigers at Jordan-Hare Stadium on November 29, 2025 in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images) | Getty Images Do you hear that? It is the sound of the clock ticking down to the 2026 NFL Draft.

We are now just five days away from the biggest offseason event on the NFL calendar, which means we are also deep, deep into speculation and smoke-screen season. No one — not NFL media members, not “insiders” with their dubious information, or fans with sources — knows what will take place across the three days and seven rounds of the draft. But that has not stopped anyone from declaring that two absolute certainties will occur: The first is that the Las Vegas Raiders will select quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the No.

1 overall selection. Not even the Raiders, who haven’t won a playoff game since 2002 and have had only two winning seasons since then, can mess this one up. (Right?

) The second, in what has somehow become the biggest guarantee since Joe Namath talked to reporters by the hotel pool in Miami before Super Bowl III, is that the Cleveland Browns will trade the No. 6 overall selection. Will that happen?