Browns make final preseason cuts; Terrelle Pryor among notables to make roster
September 5, 2015
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September 7, 2015The Cleveland Browns have traded running back Terrence West to the Titans for a conditional draft pick in 2016, General Manager Ray Farmer announced on Sunday.
A former third-round selection in 2014, West lasted just one season in Cleveland. During his rookie season he ran for 673 yards and four touchdowns in 14 games, while splitting carries with fellow rookie Isaiah Crowell. He also made 11 receptions for 64 yards and one touchdown in his rookie campaign.
Reportedly involved in trade talks last week, West seemed to be the odd man out following the selection of Duke Johnson in the 2015 draft and Isaiah Crowell’s improvement this off-season.
With Farmer’s four-game suspension beginning Monday, Sunday seemed to be the last logical day that a deal could happen for West, if the rumors of his departure were to be true. Although he survived the roster cuts on Friday, the Browns seemed intent on trading the second-year running back whether due to having a crowded backfield, or some other issues. The Browns reportedly struggled in training camp with West’s maturity and willingness to be coached.
Following the Browns final preseason game on Thursday, head coach Mike Pettine made it clear that West’s biggest issue was his consistency.
“Terrance has had his — it’s been well documented — ups and downs,” Pettine said, per the Northeast Ohio Media Group. “He flashes at times just brilliance and then other times where he gets a minus on the grade sheet, and that’s always been, some of the issues that we’ve had with him. We know he can do it. It just has to be on a more consistent basis.”
With the 53-man roster finalized on Friday, the Browns claimed offensive lineman Austin Pasztor, from the Jacksonville Jaguars, to take West’s spot on the roster.
Pasztor is in his third season out of Virginia. The 6-foot-7, 308-pound lineman was originally signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2012, but was later cut and signed by the Jaguars. The Fork Union Military Academy graduate appeared in 26 games with Jacksonville, including 23 starts (three at left guard and 20 at right tackle). Pasztor brings even more versatility to a Browns offensive line that seemed to already have plenty.
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So a team trying to protect their mediocre QB with a running game essentially had to give away last year’s third rounder a guy they traded up to get – to anyone who would offer them anything. This despite Crowell not exactly looking like gangbusters, and no depth with the injuries. That’s what a cancer West must be.
And now we have a undeniable picture of what went so very wrong in Farmer’s inaugural draft. He said before it that he didn’t mind guys who “had a little dirt under their fingernails,” meaning guys who had some behavioral red flags. And three of his top four picks have failed thus far at least partially because of their maturity or personality issues. It’s gotten tiresome to blast another high pick who doesn’t get it. Last year, clearly, it was the GM who didn’t get it.
Amen. Dirt under the nails is one thing, but blood, coke residue and god knows what else, really has to make you wonder what non football related criteria, if any, Farmer considered.
With that said, we have to look at the positives. Farmer nailed the Bitonio pick. Great character, great talent. So he’s batting 1/4, and a .250 hitter in this town isn’t easy to come by in any sport.
Conditional meaning?? Can’t be in round 7, right?
ok, another positive. You don’t release (yes, this is a release) last year’s 3rd rounder who plays a position of desperate need without the ok of your involved owner. No way Farmer, hours before his suspension begins, offs West and then hides from Jimmy for a month under the cover of league suspension terms. This looks like Jimmy’s m.o.: he’s the business guy who couldn’t bear wasting any time on Chud when he thought he wasn’t going to work out. That quick trigger certainly poisoned the next coaching search, but you have to think that today’s bloodletting will have a bunch of strutting high draft picks listening more attentively and practicing harder: Gilbert, Nate Orchard, Cameron Erving, all of them.
Usually when there are no details on the conditions it is not good, as in maybe a seventh
They must be very confident in Crowell considering Johnson can’t stay healthy.
Well, Isaiah, you da man, now.
Give ’em hell.
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