Browns exchange Baker Mayfield: Former No. 1 pick tops rundown of Cleveland QB's taken in first round starting around 1999
Pastry specialist Mayfield's time in Cleveland at last reached a conclusion on Wednesday, when he was exchanged to the Carolina Panthers trade for a restrictive fifth-round pick. The No. 1 generally pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, Mayfield's visit in Cleveland added up to only four years and 62 games.
Mayfield joins the rundown of previous first-round quarterbacks who were chosen by the Browns since they got back to NFL in 1999. While his vocation in Cleveland clearly failed to impress anyone, Mayfield without a doubt delighted in more accomplishment with the Browns than the four past first-round quarterbacks who continued him. Now that his experience with Cleveland is finished, we should rank where Mayfield's Browns profession positions with the group's other first-round picks at the situation over the beyond two or more many years.
1. Cook Mayfield (2018-21)
Nothing unexpected here. Mayfield counted a 6-7 beginning as a freshman while quarterbacking a group that went a consolidated 1-31 the past two seasons. His 27 score spends that year was the newbie record until it was outperformed by Justin Herbert in 2020.
Mayfield and the Browns failed to meet expectations in 2019, however they more than compensated for it in 2020. Regardless of Odell Beckham missing the majority of the year with a physical issue, Mayfield understood the potential that was clear during his new kid on the block crusade. Alongside tossing for the second-most yards in Browns history for a solitary season (just Bernie Kosar's 1986 season was more productive), Mayfield tossed multiple times as numerous scores (26) than captures (8) during the ordinary season while driving the Browns to 11 wins, the most since the 1994 season. Mayfield then, at that point, tossed three scores passes in Cleveland's special case prevail upon Pittsburgh, the establishment's most memorable season finisher win in over 25 years.
Like 2019, the 2021 season was a difficult one for Mayfield and his partners. In any case, notwithstanding managing different wounds, Mayfield made 14 beginnings (winning six of them) while tossing for north of 3,000 yards with additional scores (17) than picks (13).
2. Tim Couch (1999-03)
The No. 1 pick in the '99 Draft, Couch had the unenviable assignment of driving a development establishment. Making the errand harder was the way that Couch and the Browns imparted a division to two groups - - Baltimore and Pittsburgh - - that included anticipated guards that would overwhelm the association well into the following 10 years.
The Browns dominated only five matches those initial two years, with Couch being the starter for everything except one of those successes. Things pivoted rather rapidly in 2001, when Butch Davis was recruited subsequent to driving the Miami Hurricanes back to public conspicuousness. Sofa drove the Browns to a 7-9 record in 2021 while turning into the fourth QB in establishment history to toss for north of 3,000 yards in a season.
Lounge chair and the Browns were far and away superior the accompanying season. Love seat, who that season kept the second-most noteworthy single season culmination rate in establishment history, drove the Browns to the establishment's most memorable season finisher billet since getting back to the NFL. In any case, with Couch sidelined with injury, reinforcement quarterback Kelly Holcomb tossed for 429 yards in a 36-33 season finisher misfortune to Pittsburgh.
Holcomb's exhibition that day made a quarterback contention that was rarely completely settled. Neither one of the players played to their true capacity in 2003, which prompted the Browns faltering to a 6-10 record. Sofa was delivered after the season and could at absolutely no point ever play in a standard season game in the future subsequent to experiencing a rotator sleeve and shoulder wounds.
3. Brady Quinn (2007-09)
Quinn showed up in Cleveland following an enhanced vocation at Notre Dame. He to a great extent sat the seat as a freshman prior to making three beginnings in 2008. In 2009, Quinn ended up dug in a quarterback discussion with Derek Anderson. Quinn made 10 beginnings that season, going 2-8 preceding experiencing a season-finishing injury in Week 14.
Quinn had three essential minutes during the '09 season. In a Week 10 misfortune to the Lions, Quinn turned into the main Browns quarterback to toss three scores in a single quarter. After fourteen days, he tossed for 271 yards and three scores in a misfortune to the Chargers. The next week, Quinn began during the Browns' 13-6 win over the Steelers that basically thumped Pittsburgh from season finisher conflict.
Cleveland eventually chose to focus on Anderson (who drove the Browns to a 10-6 record in 2010) while exchanging Quinn to the Broncos. Quinn never began in Denver, yet he made eight beginnings in 2012 as an individual from the Chiefs. He would later have brief stretches with the Seahawks, Jets, Rams and Dolphins.
4. Brandon Weeden (2012-13)
A previous small time baseball player, Weeden was 28 when the Browns made him the 22nd by and large pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. He went 5-10 as the Browns' starter that season while tossing for 3,385 yards with 14 scores and 17 picks.
Weeden prevailed upon the beginning position Brian Hoyer in 2013, yet wounds restricted him to only five games in 2013. Weeden went 0-5 as a starter the accompanying season while tossing as numerous scores (9) as interferences. Delivered the accompanying offseason, Weeden made three beginnings in Dallas and one more begin for the Texans once again the following two seasons. Weeden didn't endeavor a pass for the Texans in 2018, his last year in a NFL uniform.
5. Johnny Manziel (2014-15)
The polarizing, previous Heisman Trophy victor made only eight beginnings in two years with the Browns. After two horrendous beginnings as a new kid on the block (he was mysteriously tossed into the beginning setup late in the year in spite of Hoyer driving the Browns to a 7-6 beginning), Manziel dominated his most memorable match as a starter in Week 2 of the 2015 season. In a 30-9 misfortune in Pittsburgh in Week 10, Manziel set vocation highs by finishing 33 passes for 372 yards. He won his next start four weeks after the fact, a 24-10 win over the 49ers that saw him toss for 270 yards with one score and one capture. This would act as the zenith of Manziel's NFL profession.
Throughout the following two games, Manziel finished only half of his tosses as the Browns lost the two challenges by a consolidated score of 47-26. Manziel was latent for the Browns' normal season finale with a blackout, however reports immediately surfaced that he was in Las Vegas during the few days of the game as opposed to being with the group. Further off-field issues prompted his delivery that offseason. Manziel was never gotten by another NFL group.
