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The Browns' top three draft choices most likely will be missing when the club welcomes its rookies to a pre-training camp orientation on Monday. General Manager Phil Savage does not expect first-round picks Joe Thomas and Brady Quinn and second- round pick Eric Wright to be signed in time for the three-day rookie orient ation.
Getting any under contract for the first team practice of training camp on July 27 will be problem atic, too.


The Browns were one of a handful of teams with no draft picks signed until defensive end Chase Pittman, one of two seventh-round selections, agreed to terms Wednesday. Pittman, 6-5, 273 pounds out of LSU, signed a four-year deal through 2010.
The top three selections - each of whom has professed eagerness to open the season as starters - each presents unique negotiating challenges for the Browns and their agents.
Thomas, the third player overall chosen in the 2007 draft, wants to fall in line with the contract figures of recent No. 3 picks Vince Young, Braylon Edwards and Larry Fitzgerald. They were so-called offensive skill players and averaged more than $20 million in guaranteed money - unheard-of for a rookie offensive tackle.
Quinn, one of the Browns' top-rated players, was the draft's free-fall story of the year. The Browns traded their second-round pick and next year's first-rounder to select Quinn at the No. 22 spot. Pegged as the team's quarterback of the future, Quinn's circumstances will require creativity in contract talks.
"I would say there's probably been a little bit more consistent conversation between Joe Thomas and us than Brady Quinn," Savage said.
Then there’s Wright, for whom the Browns traded two draft picks to move up and select with the 21st pick of the second round.
He may be the toughest to sign because of a change in the collective bargaining agreement that is confounding clubs and agents of second-round picks.

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