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September 3, 2016Cleveland Browns make five waiver claims
September 4, 2016With the NFL season set to begin in just four days, teams had to cut their roster to 53 on Saturday. While making a few surprising moves, the Cleveland Browns announced that they cut their roster from 75 to the mandatory 53.
— The team terminated the contract of veteran WR Marlon Moore.
— There were 19 players waived: DL Kenton Adeyemi, DL Chigbo Anunoby, DB Pierre Desir, RB Jahwan Edwards, DB Mikell Everette, OL Dan France, WR Taylor Gabriel, DB Charles Gaines, OL Garth Gerhart, TE Connor Hamlett, TE J.P. Holtz, WR Darius Jennings, OL Kaleb Johnson, OL Mike Matthews, LB Jason Neill, P Michael Palardy, DB Eric Patterson, P Kasey Redfern, LB Justin Tuggle
— Defensive back Justin Gilbert was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers in exchange for a 2018 sixth round pick.
— Veteran P Britton Colquitt was signed.
— WR Josh Gordon and DL Armonty Bryant , both of whom are suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season, do not count toward the 53-man roster as of 4 p.m. Saturday.
Reports surfaced earlier on Saturday that the Browns signed punter Britton Colquitt, a move that became official Saturday afternoon. Also, in one of the more surprising moves of the day, the team traded cornerback Justin Gilbert to division rival Pittsburgh Steelers in exchange for a sixth round pick in 2018. The former first-round pick continued to disappoint during the preseason, so the fact that Cleveland was able to acquire anything for him was surprising to some, especially from a division foe.
While the team will continue to search the for different ways to improve, including looking at players that other teams cut in order to bring their respective rosters to 53 as well, Executive Vice President of Football Operations Sashi Brown is excited for the team’s current roster., especially for the new players.
“We’ve had a lot of guys come in and buy in and work their tails off to try to make the roster and we’re excited about the 53 guys we’ve chosen to be Cleveland Browns. We still have some work to do and we’ll see what happens on the claim wire, there are opportunities to improve. But really excited about the 53 guys that we’ll enter the season with.”
The Browns may be one of the youngest teams in the NFL this season, which that had to do in order to start the rebuild process once again, but head coach Hue Jackson is excited for the challenge of leading a bunch of young players, including ones who can and will make an immediate impact.
“We knew heading into this that we could be young. I think Sashi and his staff have done a great job of positioning us for several years in the future but I think he’s also positioned us for our football team right now to have an opportunity for some young guys to make an impact. Obviously, I think it started during the offseason through the draft, through training camp and up to this point.”
To say the new regime is starting from scratch would be an understatement.
This is called a housecleaning. What's left of the roster from Jan. 3; 13 starters gone, 30 players total pic.twitter.com/N9jc3GhTZ8
— Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN) September 3, 2016
Throughout the season, the roster will remain at 53, with 46 players eligible to play on game days and the other seven who will be placed on the inactive list.
Some notes on the final 53-man roster:
- All 14 rookies who the Browns drafted in 2016 made the roster
- They have drafted four cornerbacks in 2015 and 2016, none of which are still with the team
- Josh Gordon and Andrew Hawkins are the only wide receivers on the roster who have started more than two NFL games. Terrelle Pryor (two starts) and four rookies join those two
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Out of the 30+ scratches the only one I’ll miss is Schwartz. And in that context, not so much.
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NFL is such a fickle beast. A healthy Geoff Schwartz is an above average OG, but he wasn’t healthy last year and I’m guessing getting cut indicates he just cannot get over those injuries.