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Draft position needs: Fullback

Lost: There really was no fullback to lose.

Added: Chris Pressley, last with Cincinnati

Extra points: Pressley at least gives the Browns a fullback to call their own. Until he signed, the Browns were working with Chris Ogbonnaya. It often does not work well to stick a running back at fullback just because he’s the biggest guy, and in the Browns' case it didn’t work. Nothing against Ogbonnaya, who gives everything he has and is a good guy. He was just the proverbial fish out of water. Pressley barely played in 2013, so if he doesn’t work out the team can compensate by using new tight end Jim Dray as an H-back.

Draft likelihood: Medium, on the third day.

Then there's this ...

Last FB drafted by the Browns: Owen Marecic, fourth round in 2011.

Last first-round FB drafted: Jim Brown, 1957. No, he doesn't fit the definition because he played running back, but when he was drafted he was taken as a fullback.

Last FB taken fourth overall: Tom Nowatzke, by the Jets in 1965.

Last three FBs taken fourth: Nowatzke, Johnny Olszewski (1953), Leon Heath (1951).

Last FB taken 26th overall: It's never happened at that slot.