Browns news, features and notes
- Browns add five scouts to their player personnel department
- Cleveland Browns rookie Jamoris Slaughter has eye on successful comeback, starting free safety job
- Browns notebook: Barkevious Mingo says fellow rookie Leon McFadden stacks up well against notable cornerbacks from LSU
- Video: Browns rookie Barkevious Mingo praises Leon McFadden, says Ray Horton has strange personality
- Video: Browns rookie cornerback Leon McFadden discusses his bid for starting job
- UPDATED: Three former Pilot Flying J employees plead guilty
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Browns add five scouts to their player personnel department
The Browns announced five additions to their player personnel department this afternoon, naming Frank Edgerly their new senior pro scout and Brent Blaylock, Brendan Donovan, Matthew Manocherian and Patrick Moore their new college scouts.
With CEO Joe Banner and General Manager Mike Lombardi in charge, the new regime shook up its player personnel department shortly after the NFL Draft in late April.
The Browns fired former director of college scouting John Spytek and pro scouts A.J. Durso and Tom Headlee. They also Browns parted ways with senior national scout Pat Roberts, whose contract had expired, and college area scouts Donovan Beidelschies and David Hinson. Another college area scout, Bob Welton, left the Browns before the draft to become the University of Tennessee football program’s director of player personnel.
Here is information about each of the Browns’ new scouts provided in a news release from the team:
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Video: Browns rookie Barkevious Mingo praises Leon McFadden, says Ray Horton has strange personality
Outside linebacker Barkevious Mingo praised cornerback Leon McFadden and said defensive coordinator Ray Horton "has a very strange personality" while speaking to reporters today as the Browns' rookie class participated in a youth football camp at FirstEnergy Stadium.
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Video: Browns rookie cornerback Leon McFadden discusses his bid for starting job
Browns cornerback Leon McFadden discussed his bid for a starting job and his transition to the NFL as the team's rookie class participated in a youth football camp today at FirstEnergy Stadium.
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Browns notes: Jamoris Slaughter says he’s clear to practice after rupturing Achilles last year
Browns rookie free safety Jamoris Slaughter is ready to take the next major step in his comeback attempt -- and his young career.
Slaughter has been sidelined this offseason while rehabilitating from a ruptured left Achilles’ tendon he suffered last year as a senior at Notre Dame, but he said today that he’s been medically cleared to practice when training camp begins July 25.
Slaughter, a sixth-round pick in this year’s draft who believes he would’ve been selected earlier if his injury hadn’t occurred, doesn’t expect to be limited at all.
“I'm cleared at this point to do everything, so I've been feeling really good,” Slaughter said today as the Browns' rookie class participated in a youth football clinic at FirstEnergy Stadium. “I've been working out hard with the team, just waiting to get back for training camp.”
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Browns announce cancellation of 'Fan Kickoff Concert' featuring Bon Jovi, Michael Stanley
The Browns have announced they are canceling the "Fan Kickoff Concert" that was scheduled for July 14 at FirstEnergy Stadium.
No explanation for the cancellation of the event, which was to feature Bon Jovi and Michael Stanley, was given. A Browns spokesman referred questions to Bon Jovi's publicist, Ken Sunshine, who couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
The team said for refund information, ticket holders should return to their original point of purchase.
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