Tony Fields II: Grade the Browns’ fifth-round pick in NFL Draft 2021
Updated 3:16 PM;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Two linebackers in one draft. What is going on with the Cleveland Browns?
Andrew Berry joked Friday that it might’ve seemed like a fever dream to see the Browns - often described as an analytically driven franchise that doesn’t value linebackers - trade up to take a linebacker (Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah) in the second round.
On Saturday, Berry grabbed another linebacker, Tony Fields II of West Virginia, in the fifth round.
Fields spent his first three seasons at Arizona before transferring to West Virginia. Draft analysts describe him an undersized linebacker (he’s 6-foot, 222 pounds). But unlike Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, the second-round pick, Fields doesn’t possess the kind of coverage skills that could see an easy transition to safety.