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5 Best Cleveland Browns sixth-round draft picks since 1999

By Casey Kinnamon

OAKLAND, CA - DECEMBER 02: Ahtyba Rubin #71 of the Cleveland Browns looks on during pre-game warm ups before playing the Oakland Raiders at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on December 2, 2012 in Oakland, California. The Browns won the game 20-17. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
OAKLAND, CA - DECEMBER 02: Ahtyba Rubin #71 of the Cleveland Browns looks on during pre-game warm ups before playing the Oakland Raiders at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on December 2, 2012 in Oakland, California. The Browns won the game 20-17. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) /
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With the NFL draft rapidly approaching, we look back at how the Cleveland Browns have fared in various rounds since returning to the NFL in 1999. Today we take a look at the five best draft picks the Browns have made in the sixth-round over the last 21-years.

The Cleveland Browns have a deep and rich history. This list could be very different if we were talking about the five best draft picks the Browns have made in the sixth-round of their team history. You would hear names like Doug Dieken, Paul Wiggin, and Jimmy Ray Smith. You may even get a Michael Jackson appearance, and no…not the pop star.

There would probably even have to be an honorable mention for former W.C.W. World Heavyweight Champion, and two-time All-American out of Florida State, Ron Simmons. Yes, the Browns drafted Simmons in the sixth-round back in 1981.

But alas, this list will be the five best players the Browns have drafted in the sixth-round since returning the NFL in 1999. Recent history has not been kind to this reiteration of the Browns, or perhaps the Browns have not been kind to recent history. This writer is inclined to believe the latter.

No more proof is needed of the Browns mismanaging and misfortunes than the sixth-round of the 2000 NFL draft. The Browns were looking for a quarterback. They found one. They took a chance on Spergon Wynn, a raw prospect out of Texas State. Wynn was the sixth quarterback selected in the 2000 NFL draft.

The next quarterback came off the board 16 picks later when the New England Patriots took a flyer on a part-time starter out of the University of Michigan. That pick ended up panning out for the Patriots, but had the Browns selected Tom Brady instead of Wynn, needless to say, this list would have ended up dramatically different.

That’s life in the NFL, 31 different teams missed on the G.O.A.T. multiple times that fateful weekend in the early spring of 2000. Sixth-round picks are hardly shoe-ins for making a team’s roster, let alone winning you six rings. Now let’s take a look at how the Browns have fared with their sixth-round picks since reentering the league back in 1999.

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