Last year I noted a strange coincidence with a trio of Browns quarterbacks who all were drafted in the third round had first names beginning with the third letter of the alphabet wore uniform numbers that were factors of three. Charlie Frye, Colt McCoy, and Cody Kessler can now be neatly packaged into a triangular […]
Most sentient football fans by now have seen some version of the Browns jersey featuring the league’s longest list of starting quarterbacks since 1999 — a total of 22 names to date. But even longer than that is the list of Browns quarterbacks who didn’t get the starting nod for a single game, at least […]
Willis McGahee, a month shy of age 32, is the newest Brown, signed today to step into a thin backfield suddenly thinner given the trade of Trent Richardson. With 8,077 career rushing yards, McGahee ranks 42nd all-time. He joins the following list of veteran backs who became Browns only in the last legs of their […]
Obsessive Browns fan, prone to perceiving patterns and observing oddities, even inanities of name and number, takes note of the following: Never in history have the Browns had more than one Josh or Joshua on the team. In fact, before Cribbs hit the scene running, the only Josh on their all-time roster was QB Josh […]
Not often at all will you find a pair of players at the same position, traded for each other straight-up, who then hit free agency and sign with the same third team on the same day. From even comparison to direct competition. The second pre-season game is when many such roster skirmishes and depth chart […]
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What feat do Greg Pruitt, Jim Brown, Leroy Kelly, Ray Renfro, Bobby Mitchell, Eric Metcalf, Brian Brennan, Kevin Johnson, Herman Fontenot, and Willie Miller have in common as Browns players? Answer to #55: While the “new” Browns lost 100 games within their first decade of play, the original Browns did not lose their 100th game […]
The Browns have now lost 100 regular-season games since returning to the NFL in 1999. How many years did it take the original Browns, beginning in 1946, to lose 100 games? Answer to #54: Gary Collins, who pulled double duty as a receiver and punter, ran twice from punt formation in a 27-7 win over […]
Which Brown once ran fake punts for first downs twice in the same game? Answer to #53: Milt Plum threw 208 passes without an interception in the early ’60s, a record since eclipsed by Bart Starr and currently held by Kosar with exactly 100 more.
Before Bernie Kosar, which Brown once held the NFL record for most consecutive passes without an interception? Answer to #52: Oklahoma’s Kurt Burris was the Browns’ first-round pick in 1955 but never signed a contract due to impending induction into the Navy. He later played in the Canadian Football League.
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