Josh Gordon’s Reported Failed Drug Test Leaves Browns Even More Desperate at WR

April 12, 2016   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

There may not have been a team with a shakier corps of wide receivers in the NFL last year than the Cleveland Browns. There was speedster Travis Benjamin, veteran Brian Hartline, Dwayne Bowe's corpse and a motley crew of "who?"
It was the type of situation that leads one to shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, at least things can't get any worse."
But this is Cleveland, so of course things got worse, and now the Browns are left in straits so dire at wideout that it may not matter who the team drafts as its quarterback of the future...
Because he isn't going to have anyone to throw the ball to.
Benjamin, who led all Cleveland wide receivers in receptions (68), yardage (966) and touchdowns (five) last year, is gone, part of a free-agent strategy by the new brain trust in Cleveland that appeared to be "just watch everyone leave."
However, while the doubters groused and sportswriters blasted the Browns for allowing the little talent it had to walk out the door, th...

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