CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns made Michigan defensive tackle Mason Graham the newest member of the team after trading back from No. 2 to No. 5 with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The top rated defensive tackle in the draft, Graham was a first-team AP All-American, first-team All-Big Ten and a finalist for several postseason awards. He was an essential piece of the Michigan defensive line during the Wolverines’ 2023 National Championship run and was, somehow, even better this season with 45 tackles, 7 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks and a pass break-up. Here are five things to know about the newest edition to the Browns. Graham has a wrestling background A two-time heavyweight champion in California’s Trinity League as a high schooler, Graham’s wrestling background helped him get playing time as a true freshman at Michigan, and the techniques and principals he picked up still make an appearance in several aspects of his game today. According to ESPN’s Jake Trotter Graham started wrestling because he lived to far from his high school to go back home before basketball practice, so Servite High School football coach Troy Thomas persuaded him to join the wrestling team. “I feel like it helps. It was just a thought at first from my high school head coach,” Graham told ESPN Radio. “He kind of gave the idea in my head, and then I was like ‘alright let’s do this.’ It obviously helps with O-line and D-line, wrestling another person, feeling leverage, feeling weight.” Graham had offers to wrestle in college from a wide range of schools, but he chose to make his way to Michigan. He enrolled early and missed his senior wrestling season, but he was projected to be one of the best wrestlers in California at the time. Graham also was a thrower on the track and field team and played soccer, baseball, basketball and rugby growing up. High school teammates with Tetairoa McMillan Graham wasn’t the only Servite High School product who was invited to the green room, and didn’t have to wait too long. After the Browns selected Graham at No. 5 his high school teammate Tetairoa McMillan was selected three picks later at No. 8 to the Carolina Panthers. Graham was initially committed to Boise State before Michigan got him to flip his commitment. Meanwhile, McMillan and former Servite quarterback Noah Fifita both made their way to Arizona. Fifita’s father, Les, was trying to do everything in his power to get Arizona in the Mason Graham sweepstakes. “Everybody that would listen, we were telling them,” Les Fifita told ESPN. “He was just unblockable.” Graham, McMillan and Fifita led Servite to a 10-3 record and an appearance in the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division 1 championship their senior year, and the Friars had a top-10 national MaxPreps ranking. Michigan’s first top-10 defensive lineman The Wolverines have had a lot of players get drafted in the last few seasons, and a lot of them play on the defensive side of the ball. Guys like 2024 second round pick Kris Jenkins, 2023 first-round pick Mazi Smith and several defensive ends and linebackers have been high draft pick out of Michigan for years, but Graham is the Wolverines’ first defensive tackle drafter in the top 10 of the NFL Draft. Graham’s roommate and fellow defensive tackle Kenneth Grant, the other half of Michigan’s gamebreaking defensive front, was selected with the No. 13 overall pick to Miami. While Grant went just outside the top 10, Graham and tight end Colston Loveland became the first fair of Michigan teammates since 1945 to both be selected in the top 10. The three players drafted in the first round is also a program record for the Wolverines.