Cleveland Browns 53-Man Roster Projection (Final Version) - Will Jamal Lewis Make It?

I could see him on the practice squad, he’s just not making the 53-man roster. We don’t need a fourth running back.

You don’t have to cut anyone from the 53 to put Jennings on the practice squad. We would actually have to put Jennings on waivers and have him clear waivers to put him on the squad, I believe. Neither Ali nor Vickers is practice squad eligible, so we couldn’t even “cut” them from the ’squad.

then why are teams still lacking a running game

Because good offensive lines are hard to find. And because there are only a handful of backs who can succeed without having a good line in front of them (Jennings probably not being one of them).

Once again, it was a preseason game. Let’s see him run like that consistantly in the regular season before we start giving him all this praise. Do you really think we would have a successful running game if he was our lead back? There’s a reason this guy wasn’t on any NFL team a month ago — he’s not that special.

Great running backs are hard to find. Average running backs are a dime-a-dozen (and we don’t even know if Jennings is good enough to be called “average”).

You really need to stop getting so excited about players who play well in preseason games against players who will never see the field in the regular season. If you’ve watched the Browns at all over the past decade then you know we’ve seen many players who look like stars in the preseason then do nothing in the regular season (Lee Suggs, anyone?).

There is no need for that sensitivity. First, I said “a little ridiculous”, and second, I wasn’t calling you an idiot, I was saying that what you were saying was a little ridiculous. People here are intelligent and will debate things that they think are not logically sound, proven with evidence, etc. If you are up for that level of football talk, welcome to the club.

There have been zero meaningful games that Robiskie could have played in so far, and WR is a position that traditionally has to make a big adjustment to the NFL. Judging him now is a little ridiculous, and I bring up his level of success to this point because I don’t think anyone would be calling the Robo pick “misguided” if he had torn it up in the preseason.

It is way, way, way too early to judge the ultimate success of the pick, and to judge the success of any draft pick at this point in time with a large degree of confidence is, in fact, ridiculous. But you really didn’t say that (I just read into your comment that you implied that, or I implied that you wouldn’t have said what you did if the light had gone on for Robiskie in the preseason), you said that the pick was misguided:

WR was one of the biggest positions of need in April, before we knew how Furrey would look (or what the deal was really with his “concussion”), before we found out Cribbs looked like he could play well enough to be our 2nd WR, and when our 2nd and 3rd WRs from last year were probably not going to play for a while (Stallworth) and not good enough to play at most powerhouse D1 schools (Steptoe). Throw in the fact that we traded K2 (who was in effect our #2 WR) and there was a bigtime need there. We needed WRs, we took WRs. Based on Robiskie’s professionalism throughout not only his OSU career, but also the pre-draft process, he looked like the most NFL-ready WR. He perfectly fit the bill of the “Mangini guy”.

Every draft pick is a gamble. Some will work out, some won’t. You take 2 WRs and you figure one of them will probably work out. You only take one, and you have half the chance that he will develop in to a good player. All you can do as a GM is get the best odds of success on your picks.

So no, it wasn’t misguided. I did think there were better players on the board, but I didn’t think Brown could drop in to coverage, and I thought it was early for the other players I liked (D. Butler, Brace, Barwin). I did like Britton, but am not sure if he can play RT. I thought Sintim would have been an OK pick. But, I/we/all the national pundits must have lacked some information that every NFL team had. Everyone had Maualuga going in the 1st round, and his stock plummeted—which was a surprise to everyone on draft day.

Simply put; I didn’t think Robiskie was an ideal pick, but I didn’t see a clear alternative. I think he was the best player on the board at WR at the time—one of our biggest needs.

Right. People are getting way too excited over a few preseason games and think we have a bunch of great running backs waiting in the wings. What benefit do we get from cutting Lewis? If he looks bad over the first few games then Davis will get more carries and maybe — maybe — take over the starting job. But if people think we’re going to cut Lewis to rely on guys like Herron and Jennings then I think that’s crazy.

I really don’t think Lewis could net us a draft pick. He is obviously a better player than Leonard but the acquiring team also assumes his contract, which in the case of Leonard was nothing. High priced players, older “name” players get cut all the time because team’s don’t want to trade the future of a guy they will have under contract for 6 years for a guy on his last legs for at best a year or two.

I’m getting slightly annoyed over all the Jennings praise. That game meant absolutly nothing and nobody understands that. I’m presuming this post to be extremely facetious of course.