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The Cleveland Browns have seen their fair share of high- Saivion Smith Jersey potential players fall by the wayside.Strong prospects like Braylon Edwards, Brady Quinn and Trent Richardson havent panned out for one reason or another. But under the tutelage of , the club has found incredible succe s drafting and developing players from nearly all aspects of the NFL Draft in recent years.Theyve helped turn top pick Myles Garrett into the reigning , while also watching sixth-round pick Donovan Peoples-Jones mature into a strong offensive option before his trade to the Lions. In doing so, theyve created a team primed for a strong run into the NFL playoffs with on paper one of the most talented rosters in the league.While pure skill and talent can win out, sometimes the difference in the NFL comes down to which team po se ses the most pure athletes on each side of the ball.MORE:By the metrics, according to Kent Lee Plattes , the Browns have a roster that ranks in the top third of athleticism in the league. The metric combines 10 measurements for a player to come up with a final grade of how athletic a player is before they enter the NFL.Heres P.J. Locke III Jersey how the Browns ranked among the rest of the league.Platte places the Browns as the ninth-most athletic team in the NFL, one spot behind their AFC North rival Pittsburgh Steelers. With an average RAS score of 7.57, the Browns, once again, are led by Myles Garrett, whom Platte gives a 9.99 RAS score.Cleveland going after top flight athletes isnt new, Platte . Their rosters from the last five years have mostly been pretty highly rated, but they spent a lot of time in the 2010s floating around middle of the league or worse.High Dalton Risner Jersey RAS scores havent nece sarily been kind when it comes to Cleveland draft picks in the past though. The three highest-rated Browns players of the 2000s, Jordan Cameron, Andre Davis and Braylon Edwards, were all solid players for the Browns, but none made a lasting impact or played on a winning Cleveland team. Even since head coach Kevin Stefanski took over DeMarcus Ware Jersey in 2020, the highest-rated RAS player was center Dawson Deaton, a seventh-round pick in 2022 who played parts of two seasons with the team.Browns schedule 2024:But players like Greg Newsome II, Isaiah Thomas and Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah all have scores above 8.5 and are consistent contributors week in and week out, with Owusu-Koramoah and Newsome leading the charge on one of the best defenses of the league last season.Clevelands 2024 was given a 9.57 RAS, while Myles Harden, the seventh-round corner out of South Dakota, graded out as an 8.30. It remains to be seen how large of a contribution Dennis Smith Jersey Hall will be able to make this year and whether or not Harden will even make the team.But it shows that the Browns are continuing their recent trend of prioritizing athletic players to fill out an already talented roster.