I am no news breaker, but if you hangout in Indianapolis for long enough during NFL Combine week, you’ll be able to draw a few conclusions.

Bloggers stay out until 3:00 a.m. because they’re away from their wives for the week. Reporters get into dust ups at Starbucks. Everyone talks. Here are a few things I’ve heard or thought of amid the chaos:

1. Cleveland Browns view Travis Hunter “primarily” as wide receiver… he’s probably not the pick.
Coming into this week, the Browns were set to explore all options, one of them being Colorado’s Travis Hunter. GM Andrew Berry certainly turned some heads at his press conference when he proclaimed that the Browns “primarily” view Hunter as a receiver. The Heisman winner is here this week as a defensive back, although won’t participate in workouts. Berry’s reasoning was sound. Hunter is a great athlete, and he’d be able to play more snaps and make an impact on every single game as a wide receiver. Hunter himself said that he has studied tape of Jerry Jeudy, since they are both from Florida. A match to play together in Cleveland? I am not so sure. Is Hunter the best pass-catcher in this draft? Probably not. That label belongs to Arizona’s Tetairoa McMillan. Are the Browns really going to use the No. 2 pick on a receiver when they have so many other needs? That seems extraordinarily doubtful to the people I talked to. Hunter was all business when he met with the media, answering each question with no more than one sentence. He just repeatedly stated his desire to play on both sides of the ball in the NFL. While Berry would love to add a player of his ilk, I am not sure if it’s going to happen just because they have too many other needs.

2. Myles Garrett drama has no end in sight
This was something that I understood coming into the week, but the NFL Combine only confirmed it. The Browns told people both publicly and privately that they have no desire to trade Garrett. So much so, that by Wednesday evening, smoke of an extension—or possibly even a new contract—was brewing. “There’s no way he’d turn down becoming the highest-paid defender in the league, right?” people asked themselves. Well, that all crashed and burned on Thursday after a source told Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot that Garrett has no interest in signing an extension with the Browns. He’s dug in. He doesn’t believe Cleveland is a place where he could win a Super Bowl. The Browns are dug in as well. Maybe he ultimately folds and takes $40 million annually, especially with the new salary cap increase, but the only thing that’s clear is that this is going to prolong for several more weeks.

3. Browns feel like “they have to” select a quarterback
What the Tennessee Titans will do with the No. 1 overall pick will have influence on what the Browns do behind them (obviously, more on that later), but the sentiment I gathered all week is that the Browns feel a bit of pressure to select their next signal-caller at No. 2. Berry and Kevin Stefanski both publicly gushed over Shedeur Sanders and Cam Ward. While nobody is placing all of the blame on them for the Deshaun Watson failure, it’s up to them to fix it. They are praised in league circles, but you can only lose so much. Outside of drafting a QB at No. 2, the other options are dwindling. The Atlanta Falcons are still publicly claiming they’re holding onto Kirk Cousins. Matthew Stafford is going back to the Los Angeles Rams, and there’s no reason to believe anything is percolating between Sam Darnold and the Browns. Whether they love either of these rookie QBs is to be seen. Reading between the lines, both Berry and Stefanski repeated how much they value decision-making over any other trait in a quarterback. That leads me to believe that Sanders would be the likely option, as it would allow Stefanski to unlock the successful Joe Flacco-led offense without the turnovers.

4. Don’t read into Browns free agency
The Browns aren’t expected to do much in free agency, if that wasn’t’ obvious as a result of their current situation. But if they add a quarterback like Daniel Jones or Cousins (if he ends up released or traded), they could still target a QB at No. 2. Everything will remain on the table.

5. Tennessee and New York could screw everything up
The Starbucks Showdown on Wednesday evening took place because of conflicting reports about a meeting that happened between Matthew Stafford and Tom Brady. Regardless, Stafford is going back to the Rams. That would leave the Titans, New York Giants, Las Vegas Raiders and New York Jets all still desperate for a QB. The Titans have been quietly mentioned as a team to watch to overpay free agent QB Sam Darnold. If that happens, maybe the Giants would finally feel the pressure to give up their 2026 first-round pick to leapfrog the Browns and select either Sanders or Ward at No. 1 overall. The Titans would then select No. 3 overall, where Penn State EDGE Abdul Carter feels to be a preferred prospect, and they’d have an extra first-rounder to take back to Nashville for next April. That’s a big price to jump two spots, but desperate teams do desperate things, and if a team really wants Ward, they should find a way to get the No. 1 overall pick. A trade would shake up the entire top of the draft, where there’s still so much uncertainty.