The Cleveland Browns are rebuilding the right way

The Cleveland Browns are undergoing a rebuild and the front office is doing it the right way.

The Cleveland Browns were in need of change heading into the 2016 season. After another losing season, the thought of going into 2016 with the same roster did not seem like a great option.

A collective gasp was let out by the city of Cleveland when Alex Mack, Travis Benjamin, Mitchell Schwartz and Tashaun Gipson were allowed to walk without much effort expended to retain them. But things started to make more sense when Donte Whitner and Karlos Dansby were released by the team.

For the first time since 1999, the front office accepted that a full rebuild was needed. There was talent on the team, but those individual pieces did not seem to be doing much to contribute to the overall success of the team.

So the front office decided to blow everything up and essentially start over, looking to build up through the draft.

The Browns currently hold 12 draft picks, which is an amount that may go up or down depending on any trades made before or during the draft.

As the above tweet shows, the Browns have 6 of the first 100 picks. That is huge for any team, like the Browns, trying to jumpstart a franchise that has been near the basement of the NFL for two decades.

The team already traded out of the No. 2 pick in the draft in favor of adding more picks, in exchange for moving down to the No. 8 spot.

The argument about the trade was that the Browns passed up on a chance to draft either Jared Goff or Carson Wentz, but if Hue Jackson and the front office do not believe in either quarterback, it would be counterproductive to the current process to invest too much in either player.

Then comes the argument that signing Robert Griffin III goes against the rebuilding process, and that a rookie should be allowed to play as the quarterback of the future. But the Browns have not had luck with rookie quarterbacks as of late.

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So instead of taking a quarterback and having him get destroyed behind a fragile offensive line, the front office convinced Griffin to be the starting quarterback, with the possibility of reviving his career being the chance presented to him.

Signing Griffin was a smart move as the Browns have a player eager to jumpstart a career that had such promising beginnings, while still having Josh McCown to serve as a leader and mentor on the sidelines and in practice.

The Browns can still go after another quarterback like Paxton Lynch and pay him significantly less than what Goff and Wentz are going to get paid for being taken so early in the draft.

A rookie quarterback can learn under both McCown and Griffin, while the latter holds down the starting spot while the team improves through the rebuilding process.