After being punished by Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu year, after year, after year, the Cleveland Browns will finally have their own play making safety. Cleveland's problems last year were not so much on the offensive side of the ball, as they were on the defensive side. Sure, Brady Quinn and Derrick Anderson didn't exactly light it up, but when they did the defense didn't keep them in the game. Rebuilding their swiss cheese secondary will start in the secondary.
7th Pick: S Eric Berry (Tennessee)
Current safeties Mike Adams and Abram Elam are solid players, on the second or third string. Berry adds a sense of controlled chaos and physicality that could fire this defense up. As mentioned earlier, a good d-line is required to have an outstanding secondary and you can't get much better than Pro Bowl nose tackle Shaun Rogers. Berry should have the opportunity to grab some errant passes if Rogers gets penetration.
One pick surely doesn't fix a defense, but by adding Berry the Browns are taking a step in the right direction.
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