Cleveland Browns Draft Bust #7: Travis Wilson

by Chris Pokorny on Apr 7, 2011 3:16 PM EDT

I really wanted Travis Wilson to catch on with the Cleveland Browns. Selected in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft, Wilson spent two seasons with the team and only recorded 2 catches for 32 yards. It seemed like he was having a great training camp in his third year with the team, but he failed to make the final cut.

At least players like James Jackson and Travis Prentice had some reps. We didn't even get to see what Wilson had to offer on gameday, and it's not like we had a dynamite receiving corp in front of him.

On the day of the draft, Wilson proclaimed that he was the "best receiver in the draft." Looking back at the 2006 draft class, he might have actually had a point -- overall, it has turned out to be a pretty weak class, producing only four notable names in Santonio Holmes, Greg Jennings, Brandon Marshall, and Marques Colston. The problem was that Wilson was included in the "weak" bunch of players, not the elite three. He staged a brief holdout...as a third rounder, and missed the first few days of training camp in his rookie year. Two years of dropping passes in camp on a regular basis held his playing time back, and when he did start to do better in year three, apparently it was too late.

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It brought out more star WRs than I thought it would/did.

by 24rubikscube on Apr 7, 2011 3:26 PM EDT reply actions

Sad Fact: Travis Wilson had only 1 more catch as a Brown than Brady Quinn did.

I teach good life choices. That’s why I almost didn’t graduate High School.
Intensive Purposes? I could care less...
your whole argument is a fallacy!

by bross09 on Apr 7, 2011 4:39 PM EDT reply actions

that’s not a sad fact, I don’t think we’ve ever had an offense with a focus on throwing to our receivers

by Villeslgr on Apr 7, 2011 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions

its a sad fact that any WR we drafted in the first 3 rounds barely was more effective as a WR as a freaking quarterback.

Even if this was the case, the offense clearly would have more of a focus throwing to the WRs than throwing to the QB.

I teach good life choices. That’s why I almost didn’t graduate High School.
Intensive Purposes? I could care less...
your whole argument is a fallacy!

by bross09 on Apr 7, 2011 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions

i was making a funny about the many conversations the site has had about whether we do or don’t throw to receivers on purpose

by Villeslgr on Apr 8, 2011 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions

I thought maybe../

I teach good life choices. That’s why I almost didn’t graduate High School.
Intensive Purposes? I could care less...
your whole argument is a fallacy!

by bross09 on Apr 8, 2011 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe we should’ve utilized Quinn more as a WR. Ha!

by Legoman0721 on Apr 8, 2011 12:36 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Called it!

Evil wins again, but Truth prevails where Good fails.

by North Coast Flea on Apr 7, 2011 4:51 PM EDT reply actions

but...

you said travis henry…

If we don't resign Phil Dawson until he retires from the league I'm going to cry like a little sissy boy.

by Brownsbacker488 on Apr 8, 2011 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions

D’oh. I must have mixed two names together, I meant Wilson with his 2 catches for 32 yards. Don’t know where the hell I got the Henry part.

Evil wins again, but Truth prevails where Good fails.

by North Coast Flea on Apr 8, 2011 5:41 PM EDT up reply actions

so how is it wilson could have been one of the better receivers in the 06 draft...

if you have the likes of holmes, jennings, marshall, and colston in the same draft? you’re comparing a 2 catch career to elite receivers, where 3 of the 4 names you listed helped their teams win a super bowl? i hope that was just some funny irony you were trying to use chris…

If we don't resign Phil Dawson until he retires from the league I'm going to cry like a little sissy boy.

by Brownsbacker488 on Apr 8, 2011 3:29 PM EDT reply actions

Please lose the subject line. Also this:

The problem was that Wilson was included in the “weak” bunch of players

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" -Hemingway

by notthatnoise on Apr 8, 2011 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions

I wish we would have skipped the visit to Norman Oklahoma that year. I think we also picked Oklahoma CB Antonio Perkins that year – a player who contributed even less than Travis Wilson. Stick with Longhorns my friends. Guys like Dawson, Babb, Metcalf, Colt, Big Baby. Sooners Travis Wilson, and Antonio Perkins.

Change isn't good or bad it just "is". Don Draper of Madmen

by realmccoy on Apr 9, 2011 2:50 PM EDT reply actions