With the No. 15 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns select Baylor wide receiver Corey Coleman.
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And now he’s the No. 65 overall pick in the NFL Draft, as the Browns added yet another pass rusher to draft yield that already produced Emmanuel Ogbah in the second round.
The Browns also gave a sixth-round pick (No. 176) to the Titans.
“I can do a little bit of everything”, he said. “That’s how I play. I think I can do a lot of stuff to help the team out”, Coleman said. I kind of patterned my game after him. I will rush standing up, I will rush with my hands on the ground. He won the Lombardi Award for the nation’s top linebacker or lineman, the Ted Hendricks Award for the top defensive end, and the Lott IMPACT Trophy for the defensive players that represented the characteristics of Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott – integrity, maturity, performance, academics, community and tenacity. The Browns have told him they may move him around in their 3-4 scheme. The Browns chose him over Noah Spence of Eastern Kentucky, who started out at Ohio State but was banned by the Big Ten for repeated failed drug tests.
The former Penn State walk-on turned All-American defensive end star was taken by the Cleveland Browns in the third-round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
“Corey Coleman is a guy we identified very early”, Sashi Brown, executive vice president of football operations, said. Orchard played better later in the season and he’ll be counted on in 2016. He immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of 9, and even then he was expressing an interest in this new American sport of football. “The reason why we immigrated is because my dad wanted a better life for our family”. They took Justin Gilbert in the first round in 2014 and Brandon Weeden in the first round in 2012. He played basketball before switching to football.
“This guy brings a dynamic on defense”, said first-year coach Hue Jackson. “We want to be suffocating, and we understand that we have to affect the quarterback in our division”. On Thursday, the Oakland Raiders, at No. 14, made Joseph the first safety selected. 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 made a decision 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 had 12 selections in last year’s draft.
The three Big 12 players marked the most from the conference since three first-round picks were chosen in the 2013 draft.
Over the weekend, Coleman was back at St. Jude, where he watched the Browns call his name with other cancer victims – all children.
His senior season, Nassib was the direct beneficiary of teams avoiding rushing to Anthony Zettel’s side of the defensive line, and Nassib burst on to the national scene with 15.5 sacks. “He had the speed and tenacity to turn small plays into long plays”.
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Projected as a potential first-round selection by more than a few pundits, Ogbah has an impressive combination of speed and power.
