Cleveland Browns Announce 53-Man Roster

On Saturday the Cleveland Browns announced who will be on their 53-man roster. The team had to cut their roster from 65 to 53 on Saturday.

Browns Executive Vice President of Football Operations Sashi Brown had this to say about the 2017 Browns team:

“We have some core guys that we expect, who are not only here now but will be here for a long time, and then adding a lot of fresh young talent to the roster in guys that are competitive and embrace the way we want to build who obviously fit our scheme. Year over year we’re going to have some opportunities to put some talent on this roster both in free agency and the draft. We obviously had a trade today and we’ll be looking at every opportunity to improve the roster moving forward, but we do like we’re young and the talent is not only better, but also ascending.”

The following is the Browns 53-man roster :

Offense (25) 

Quarterbacks (3): DeShone Kizer, Cody Kessler, Kevin Hogan

Running Backs (3): Isaiah Crowell, Duke Johnson Jr., Matthew Dayes

Fullback (1): Danny Vitale

Wide Reciever (5): Kenny Britt, Corey Coleman, Sammie Coates, Ricardo Louis, Rashard Higgins

Tight End (3): Randall Telfer, Seth DeValve, David Njoku

Lineman (10): Joe Thomas, Joel Bitonio, JC Tretter, Kevin Zeitler, Shon Coleman, Rod Johnson, Marcus Martin, Spencer Drango, Austin Reiter, Zach Sterup

Defense (25) 

Defensive Lineman (10): Myles Garrett, Danny Shelton, Trevon Coley, Emmanuel Ogbah, Caleb Brantley, Tyrone Holmes, Jamie Meder, Carl Nassib, Larry Ogunjobi, Nate Orchard

Linebackers (5): Jamie Collins Sr., Christian Kirksey, Joe Schobert, Dominique Alexander, James Burgess

Defensive Backs (10): Jamar Taylor, Briean Boddy-Calhoun, Jason McCourty, Marcus Burley, Darius Hillary, Jabrill Peppers, Derrick Kindred, Ibraheim Campbell, Calvin Pryor III, Kai Nacua

Specialists (3)

Kicker (1): Zane Gonzalez

Punter (1): Britton Colquitt

Long Snapper (1): Charley Hughlett

Joe Thomas jokingly tweeted out the following regarding the fact that only 11 players on the 2017 roster were on the team in 2016. Thomas was asked how many teammates he has had in his career.

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— Joe Thomas (@joethomas73) September 2, 2017

*Quotes from Clevelandbrowns.com*