Daily Dawg Tags: Cleveland Browns selected the ‘best-kept secret’ in draft
By Dan Justik
The Daily Dawg Tags brings you all the Cleveland Browns news you need to know, including the Browns drafting the ‘best-kept secret.’
The Cleveland Browns made quite a few surprising selections in the 2019 NFL Draft, including some picks that many people believed were reaches.
One of the trends of the Browns draft was how they were selecting players that the casual fan would not know much about.
That includes their sixth-round selection, offensive lineman Drew Forbes. Coming out Southeast Missouri State, not much was known about Forbes.
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Today’s featured article did a profile on Forbes, but labeled him as the NFL Draft’s “best-kept secret” and did not reveal his identity until after the draft.
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"“He’s the best prospect I’ve ever had,” his head coach says. “And I’ve had a Senior Bowl guy, I’ve had a guy drafted.”"
The premise behind this article was that Forbes was a late-round prospect who had the ability to potentially outperform that value and become a steal from this draft. If that evaluation comes true, then the Browns would be ecstatic about their sixth-round selection.
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"The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Redwine is not afraid to get into the mix in the box and handle business at or behind the line of scrimmage.“Definitely, I bring that type of mentality,” Redwine said in a conference call with the Cleveland media after being drafted. “It just comes from my upbringing, my childhood and the park that I played on, the high school that I came from and the college that I came from."
Since becoming the Browns general manager in December 2017, John Dorsey has started to build a defensive unit with attitude. Redwine fits that mold and will try to translate his physicality in college to the NFL.
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