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Browns rookie ranked as having most pressure to succeed in entire NFL

The defensive tackle position is often out of the spotlight.

Not this defensive tackle. Not after the trade.

Cleveland Browns rookie Mason Graham, the No. 5 overall pick out of Michigan, will have all eyes on him.

He was the key return as Cleveland gave the No. 2 pick to Jacksonville to take Travis Hunter. In return, the Browns got No. 5 (Graham), No. 36 (Quinshon Judkins) and the Jags' first-rounder next year, which they have to be hoping lands a QB.

CBS Sports writer Chris Trapasso says Graham has the most pressure to succeed of any rookie who isn't a quarterback.

"Think there's added pressure on the young interior rusher? Yeah, I'd say so," he writes. "While most of the attention will be paid to the Browns quarterback situation inside one of the strangest quarterback rooms ever assembled -- Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel, and Shedeur Sanders -- it's Graham who should feel the most pressure to succeed within this organization I can't decide is trying to win now or rebuild."

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Yeah, things are a bit weird for the Browns right now.

Graham, more than you'd expect, will be right at the heart of the oddball expectations.