Cleveland Browns 53-Man Roster Projection (Version 2)

This is the first year where a few of these bubble guys I would actually be mad if we let go.

Sorenson for Veikune.
Lawson for Robinson.
Reinders for Royal or Smith.

no way. more like 5-6 WR and 2-3 TE

So according to the rotoworld wire we project McCoy as a longterm backup? I didn’t even realize people made projections for that as a goal for their draft picks.

However, I guess that means, we might be looking at Wallace as our future starter or most likely we plan to draft someone in the first round next year.

It seems odd we would make it know already that we don’t have a long-term starter in our most recent draft pick. I would think that would ruin any leverage we might be working with next year in the draft. I also wonder if this projection was made before we drafted McCoy or after?

More likely this is probably just an obvious Plain Dealer, we have no idea what we are talking about but hey we have a source so we’re going with it, report.

I don’t know, just made me wonder about our full plan at QB, as I assume we aren’t looking at Delhomme to be our starter for the next 5-10 years.

Veikune and Geathers will definitely not make it through waivers.

Lawson for Smith-don’t see 4 TEs
Geathers for Robinson-don’t see them wanting to risk him getting picked up on waivers

In my final projection, I’ll take a harder look at something I didn’t consider much on these first two projections — which players will consistently be on the inactive list every week? Because if Derreck Robinson would be on that list, there’s no need to cut Geathers. I need to be confident that a guy like Robinson would be on the active 45-man roster more times than not.

I mostly agree…however I can’t see us carrying 4 TEs or 6 Safeties so i think Sorenson and smith will go.

I think Alex Smith’s spot is in bigtime jeopardy. Not only does 4TE sound a little weird, Smith just hasn’t done anything.

I also think we keep one less OL. They are working Steinbach at LT in the case of our worst nightmare. We have Womack, Pashos, St. Clair who could all play RT in an injury situation. Those three plus Lauvao could probably play either guard spot. If Mangini and co think Lauvao can play center in the event of our other worst nightmare, that’s a ton of positional versatility on the line.

The guys I would expect to see us keep in place of either of those two would be 1. Ratliff and 2. Jennings or a 5th WR.

Even though we will probably keep Ventrone as a key ST player and Mike Adams plays CB sometimes, I can’t see us going with 6 safeties. I am really hoping we cut Sorensen.

As for Veikune, I really thought his roster spot was in jeopardy, but they had him lined up all over in the game last week. He was at ILB, OLB, DE, I think I even saw him at DT. This bodes well for him, and I still don’t know if we know the whole story with his injury(?) Add all this to the fact that the holdovers from last year have a lot invested in him and I would be a little surprised if we let him go, but not entirely surprised.

Alright, you´ve tempted mooncamping into his yearly yay and nay list. But for reasons of being politically correct, I will only issue the Yay-list:
QB:
1. Colt McCoy
2. Brett Ratliff
FB:
1. Peyton Hillis
2. Lawrence Vickers
TB:
1. Montario Hardesty
2. James Davis
FL:
1. Bobby Engram
2. Chansi Stuckey
WO:
1. Mohamad Massaquoi
2. Carlton Mitchell
3. Jake Allen
TE:
1. Evan Moore
2. Alex Smith
3. Ben Watson
4. Robert Royal
LOT:
1. Joe Thomas
2. Tony Pashos
LOG:
1. John Malecki
2. Billy Yates
C:
1. Eric Steinbach
2. Paul Fanaika
ROG:
1. Shaun Lauvao
ROT:
1. Scott Kooistra
2. Floyd Womack
3-4 NG:
1. Shaun Rogers
2. Robaire Smith
-These two would have a spot in the 4-3 too.
3-4 DT:
1. Ahtyba Rubin
2. Matt Roth
3. Jason Trusnik
4. Brian Schaefering
4-3 DT:
1. Titus Adams
2. Derreck Robinson
4-3 DE:
1. Brian Sanford
2. Swanson Miller
3-4 ROLB:
1. David Vaikune…also 4-3 MLB
3-4 LOLB:
1. Kaluka Maiava…also 4-3 OLB
2. Blake Costanzo
3-4 RILB:
1. Eric Barton
3-4 LILB:
1. D´Quell Jackson…also 4-3 OLB
monster LB (situational):
1. Scott Fujita
2. Chris Gocong
FS:
1. Eric Wright
2. T.J. Ward
3. Chris Chancellor
SS:
1. Abe Elam
2. Joe Haden
3. John Bowie
CB:
Vacant
PR/KR:
Josh Cribbs
K:
Phil Dawson
P:
Reggie Hodges

So, if I counted right, that´s 50:
Please reacquire:
OLB Eryk Anders
ILB Daniel Howard
ILB Jon Dempsey
OLB Jeff Smart
OG Brennan McFadden
OG Deverin Geralds

I think Alex Smith gets cut.
I think Geathers stays.

As for a crazy idea, Billy Yates get cut and Gerald Lawson makes the team.