Chad Beasley (pictured below courtesy of the official site) will start at right guard in place of Paul Zukauskas, sent home to be with his ailing mother. Best wishes to the Zukauskas family.

As regular readers have surely discovered, I take great interest in patterns and coincidences that don’t necessarily mean anything. So to my beautiful mind, the name Chad Beasley is significant because it shares the initials of the team itself, Cleveland Browns. Only Courtney Brown can say the same among current Browns.

So that got me to thinking of past Browns with the initials C.B. There are only seven others (not including the 1987 scabs). How many can you come up with? If you can name more than three, you’re more of a Browns ace than I. (Hint: all of them played defense.) Scroll down for the complete list:

Carl Banks LB Michigan State 1994-95

Chip Banks LB Southern California 1982-86

Carl Barisich DT Princeton 1973-75

Clifford Brooks DB Tennessee State 1972-74

Charles Buchanan DE Tennessee State 1988

Chester Burnett LB Arizona 2000

Clinton Burrell DB Louisiana State 1979-84.