1983 Trade ‘83 1st Round Pick, #3 in ‘84, #5 in ‘85 to Buffalo for Tom Cousineau
Buffalo uses picks for QB’s Jim Kelly, Frank Reich. Cousineau turns out to be an over paid, colossal bust.
1984 Drafted Safety Don Rogers from UCLA with #18 pick overall. Rogers would go on to die from a drug overdose before the ‘87 season.
1985 Trade ‘85 & ‘86 1st Round Picks, a 3rd in ‘85 and a 6th in 86 to Buffalo for the right to draft Bernie Kosar in Supplemental Draft. Buffalo uses some of the picks on Derrick Burroughs and Wil Wolford. Kosar leads the Browns to five consecutive play-off appearances, but he hurts his elbow in the opening game against the Chiefs in 1988 because of an Ernest Byner missed block and is never the same again.
1987 Trade up to #5 position with San Diego, also swapped 2nd Round positions, and traded Pro-Bowl LB Chip Banks in order to draft colossal bust and Duke graduate Mike Junkin. Junkin played two years with the Browns.
1988 Drafted colossal bust LB Clifford Charlton with #21 overall pick. He played 2 years.
1989 Trade up with Denver, swapping #1s, also traded a #2, #5, and #9 in order to draft Eric Metcalf. Denver uses #1 pick to draft Steve Atwater. Then traded their #3 and 1990's #1 to Green Bay in order to move back into 2nd Round and draft colossal bust Lawyer Tillman. Tillman played three years for Cleveland.
1991 Drafted Safety Eric Turner from UCLA with #2 overall pick. Turner would eventually die tragically from cancer.
1992 Drafted "Touchdown" Tommy Vardell with #9 overall pick. TD Tommy scored 5 TD’s in 40 games for the Browns. Another colossal bust.
1995 Traded down to #30 pick from #10 for an additional #3, #4, and a #1 in 1996 Draft. Drafted colossal bust LB Craig Powell. The new Baltimore Ravens were then able to use that additional #1 pick in ‘96 to draft future Hall of Famer Ray Lewis. Baltimore was also fortunate enough to draft #4 in ‘96 because the Cleveland Browns finished 5-11 (1-7 after the proposed move was announced). They used that pick to draft future Hall of Famer Jonathon Ogden.
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Yes, the negative on the Browns drafting would be summarized in this respect,
but what was the positive ?
Metcalf is in the company of being the
best punt returner of all time. Dave Meggett, Rocket Ismail, and Metcalf, and you could but Dion and Hester in that position too, but Metcalf was respected and feared for a time as the best return guy in football and would be on an all time team in that position.
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