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Well, it’s true. The first round of the draft is tonight and while I’m confident the Browns are going to do something like trade down rather than up and then have Trent Richardson run all over their backs for the next six years, I’m feeling good for another Clevelander.

Najee Goode, former walk on (remember that?) turned first-team all-Big East linebacker, is going to get drafted. (Aside: His dad, Youngstown State Hall of Famer and former NFL tight end John Goode, is obviously excited …  unless Naj gets picked by the Steelers.) Not tonight, which is for the first round only, and not tomorrow, which houses the second and third rounds, but Saturday and somewhere  in the final four rounds of the seven-round event. He’s passed all the physical and eyeball tests and he’s shown he can do the things required of the modern day linebacker.

And that’s pretty cool. Here’s a high school quarterback who played almost no defense at Benedictine, who had but a few college possibilities after his father and two older brothers were college players. To hear the Goodes tell the story, Najee was something of an underdog who’s about to flip the script.

“What it is is gratifying to see a kid who sacrificed like Najee has and who has worked so hard and reaped the benefits of his hard work,” said Najee’s father, John, who starred in college at Youngstown State and played tight end in 1984-85 in the NFL.

“It doesn’t always happen like that. It didn’t happen that way for my two older sons, but Najee made the most of his experiences and realized he was going to have to work a little harder and pay more attention to detail and never take anything for granted. And, credit to him, he hasn’t.”

Najee has two brothers who played well in college. Tariq began at Toledo and then transferred to Youngstown State, where he played receiver for a Division I-AA playoff team. Wakeem was a standout linebacker at Hampton and led the team in tackles as a senior.

“Najee’s not the best football player in the family and he knows it,” said John, who was inducted to the Youngstown State Hall of Fame in 1994 and caught 95 passes for 1,747 yards and 16 touchdown in his career before being drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1984. “But that’s been a great motivation for him. There’s a peer pressure amongst them, but we’re happy to see what he’s done with it.”