His future, though, will be in Cleveland.
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All three Big 12 stars came into Thursday’s National Football League draft with major questions about their health. Coleman’s speed – he’s been clocked at 4.38 seconds in the 40 – made him attractive to the Browns, who were desperate for a big-play threat after Travis Benjamin left as a free agent and because of Josh Gordon’s continued drug limbo with the NFL. ‘We’re not there yet by any stretch of the imagination.
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-The Browns traded their seventh-round choice, pick 223, to the Miami Dolphins for pick 250 and cornerback Jamar Taylor. The first glimpse of “the new Nassib” was in Penn State’s 2015 Blue-White Game, and it was after that day that both Shoop and Nassib predicted a breakout year for the latter; so confidently that they chose to start a “Sack Kidney Cancer” charitable initiative through Penn State’s Uplifting Athletes chapter in which fans could donate dollars for sacks throughout the 2015 season.
The Browns’ Harvard-educated brass even swallowed hard to take a tight end from rival Princeton.
“Touchdowns … he scores touchdowns”, Browns coach Hue Jackson said. “If that is reality or not, that is the mindset you have to have to prepare as a starter”.
“I love it”, said Jackson.
“The big thing for us was just trying to figure out how to get not only the players that we really wanted but also have as much draft capital as possible because we are trying to build a great organization over a long period of time here”, DePodesta said.
Browns vice president of football operations Sashi Brown said although the Browns have made a financial commitment to Griffin (2 years, $15 million), he’s not guaranteed to start. “They want the ball and he’s going to be one of those guys who want the ball, and you want a guy who wants the ball”. The best quarterback for us is going to start, period.
The first round of the 2016 NFL Draft featured a few twists and turns for fans of the Cleveland Browns, who again saw their team trade back to accumulate more picks. The Browns have now managed to improve their odds to build a new, younger roster through 2018 while still possessing the potential to draft up to 12 players over three days this weekend.
The Browns are hopeful this pick works out better. They will also receive the Titan’s second-round pick next year.
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Technically, they still have Armonty Bryant on the team, but this along with his drug chargers he’s now facing probably means he will be moved or released.
