![]() ![]() (Tim Fuller / USA Today) Wide receiver (6)Īssuming health, the top five are making the team. Jerome Ford saw limited touches as a rookie last season with the Browns. We don’t know exactly how the Browns will handle the preseason or if any other undrafted rookies will be good enough to crack a roster that should be hard for even drafted rookies to make, but we’ll give it a shot anyway. Injuries are awful but inevitable, and though the Browns will open camp with few long-term injury concerns, they have an extra preseason game and an extra week of training camp this year. Now that practice squads are at 16 players with designated call-ups each week and teams have the ability to use short-term injured-reserve up to eight times per season, the 53-man roster is much more flexible than it used to be. ![]() Improved depth at multiple spots makes projecting an early 53-man roster even tougher than it usually is, and the team’s offseason program was much more of an instructional passing camp than anything that offered a glimpse at early roster competitions. There’s some mystery, though, given that new coordinator Jim Schwartz is implementing a new defensive scheme and that general manager Andrew Berry admitted the Browns were more aggressive in all tiers of free agency than they originally expected to be. Who’s still going to be around when the Browns make their regular-season roster cuts in late August? For a team with as many big contracts and experienced players as the Browns have, it’s safe to say probably 40 to 45 spots are set. ![]()
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