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Cleveland Browns (2007 & prior)

ABJ

No practice for Browns' wide receiver

Edwards misses voluntary offseason drill. Frye, Quinn make bad throws, interceptions

By Patrick McManamon

Beacon Journal sportswriter

BEREA - Many of the passes went to the defense, the offense looked sloppy and the team's top receiver was not present.
So went the first day of the Browns' offseason practices on Tuesday, which was open to the media.

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CPD

Edwards a no-show for Browns' first practice

Posted by Mary Kay Cabot May 22, 2007 14:29PM

Receiver Braylon Edwards was a no-show Tuesday for the first day of Browns organized team activities, which consisted of a 90-minute practice in shorts and team meetings.
Everyone else on the team attended, except for center LeCharles Bentley, who's rehabbing from a torn patella tendon and contemplating another surgery.
Edwards' absence comes on the heels of his promise last week during his $1 million donation to Cleveland students that he's turned over a new leaf and learned from his mistakes of last season.

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Canton

Shaffer 'was down' after Browns selected Thomas
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
repository sports writer

BEREA While Kevin Shaffer says he never asked to be traded, he didn't exactly beg the Browns to draft Joe Thomas as his likely replacement at left tackle.

"Of course, right away, (going for Thomas) hit me," Shaffer said Tuesday in his first interview since the draft.

Thomas arrived via a No. 3 overall draft pick a year after Shaffer signed a seven-year, $36 million contract, ostensibly so the Browns could stop worrying about left tackle.


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Morning Journal

Shaffer never asked to be traded from Browns
JEFF SCHUDEL, Morning Journal Writer
05/23/2007




BEREA -- Kevin Shaffer says never asked to be traded in the wake of the Browns taking left tackle Joe Thomas with the third pick in the first round last month.


Shaffer was the left tackle with the first team offense during the first workout of Organized Team Activities yesterday. After the session, he set the record straight on a report he wanted out if he wasn't going to be the left tackle, the position he started for 16 games last season after signing a seven-year, $36 million contract in March of 2006.


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CLEVELAND BROWNS
Frye expects to be Browns' starting QB

But he knows it's still up in the air
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Tony Grossi
Plain Dealer Reporter
Unbowed by the presence of Brady Quinn, Charlie Frye said Tuesday he expects to be the Browns' starting quarterback when the season opens against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 9.
"I never knew I lost it," he said.
But in his first appearance in front of the media since Quinn was drafted in the first round, Frye four times stated, "I can't predict the future."
The occasion was the first of 12 spring team practices leading into June minicamp.
This one was open to the media, and it didn't take long for everyone to notice that receiver Braylon Edwards was a no-show.
Coach Romeo Crennel said Edwards informed the club in the morning he would miss the first practice. Crennel said that he was not upset with Edwards and noted the practices are voluntary.
Tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. was present but did not participate because of his rehabilitation from microfracture knee surgery in January. With the top two offensive playmakers not active, the quarterbacks suffered.
Quinn was intercepted three times, Frye twice.
The larger reason for the sloppy offensive showing, though, was the unveiling of the new offense installed by coordinator Rob Chudzinski against Crennel's defense three years in the making.
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Canton

Browns' Wilson sets sights high
Friday, May 25, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

BEREA It sounds like a swell prize when the Browns' brass says, "That third spot is up for grabs."

Travis Wilson is in no-thanks mode, reaching two rungs higher.

"In my mind and in my heart," the 2006 third-round draft pick said, "I compete for No. 1."

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CPD

BROWNS
Edwards rejoins practice

Thursday, May 24, 2007


Browns receiver Braylon Edwards rejoined teammates on Wednesday for the full 90-minute voluntary practice, a team spokesman confirmed.
Edwards was the only uninjured player who did not participate in the first so-called organization team activity practice on Tuesday. He had informed the team that morning that he would not be there.
Bill Bonsiewicz, Browns vice president of communications, said that he did not know the reason for Edwards' absence on Tuesday. "I'm sure he spoke to the appropriate people about it," Bonsiewicz said.

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Canton

Lewis expects help from revamped line
Saturday, May 26, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

BEREA Sweat glistening on his brow, Jamal Lewis studied his orange No. 31 Cleveland Browns uniform.

"Very strange," he said.

Lewis spent the previous seven seasons wearing purple in Baltimore. He is famous for rushing 500 yards in two games against Cleveland in 2003, the heaviest two-game blast against any single opponent in any NFL season.

One reflection of why Lewis was available to the Browns: In six games against Cleveland since those games, he has rushed for 481 yards at a modest 3.7 per carry.

By comparison, Cincinnati's Rudi Johnson has 763 yards at 5.1 per carry in his last six games against the Browns.

Coming off surgery to remove ankle spurs, Lewis is being held to a modest workload in spring practice. In a few chances during Tuesday's drills, he showed good explosion to the hole and acceleration after making a cut.

A case can be made that the Browns will be improved at each line spot in front of Lewis.

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