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3 receivers Cleveland Browns should target at No.13

By John Suchan

Nov 7, 2020; Los Angeles CA, USA; Southern California Trojans wide receiver Drake London (15) catches a 21-yard touchdown pass for the winning score with 1:20 to play as Arizona State Sun Devils defensive back Kejuan Markham (12) and linebacker Kyle Soelle (34) defend at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. USC defeated Arizona State 28-27. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 7, 2020; Los Angeles CA, USA; Southern California Trojans wide receiver Drake London (15) catches a 21-yard touchdown pass for the winning score with 1:20 to play as Arizona State Sun Devils defensive back Kejuan Markham (12) and linebacker Kyle Soelle (34) defend at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. USC defeated Arizona State 28-27. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones (11), left, celebrates a go-ahead touchdown catch with Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry (80) during the fourth quarter of a Week 7 NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati. The Cleveland Browns won 37-34. /

The Cleveland Browns have the No. 13 pick in the NFL draft. Will they go “all in” on a wide receiver? There are several options in a deep class of wideouts.

At one time, in the not-so-distant past, the Cleveland Browns, at least on paper, looked to have one of the best wide receiver groups in the NFL. Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. were going to lead the way for the team advancing to another postseason and hopefully a Super Bowl. Oh, how the tide turns quickly.

Beckham Jr. has flown the coop and is in Hollywood with the Los Angeles Rams after leaving the Browns midseason. Landry is still here but might be released later this offseason to save the team a bunch of money.

That leaves the Browns with Donovan Peoples-Jones and Anthony Schwartz being the only two receivers from this past season that will likely return. Wideout Rashard Higgins, who’s been with the team since 2017, is likely going to try and escape to another team as he hits the free-agent market in March.

While Peoples-Jones improved in year two with Cleveland, he didn’t have the bust-out season many were predicting when he was dazzling the Browns faithful with catches at training camp in Berea. Schwartz is coming off a less than spectacular rookie campaign. He was able to show signs of his speed that he has but not to the degree that made any huge difference in the passing game this past season.

The Browns wide receivers haven’t been able to create much separation in their routes when on the field and that left the offense struggling to move the ball down the field with much success or consistency. The last time the Browns drafted a wide receiver in the first round of the NFL draft was in 2015 when they took Corey Coleman from Baylor with the 15th pick.

Before that, you have to go all the way back to 2005 when the team took Braylon Edwards, from Michigan with the third pick. For some perspective on how that pick landed with the team, Aaron Rodgers, quarterback of the Green Bay Packers was selected at 24th that draft. Oh my…

So, picking wide receivers for Cleveland isn’t very commonplace and yet it is likely the most glowing deficiency on the offensive side off the ball for the team right now. With that in mind, let’s study a few of these top-rated wide receivers entering the draft and see which might be the best fit for the Browns.

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