DPJ

nickers

Hmmm Interesting...

Kvoethe

Obj was a bad addition...baker was rocking back when it was higgins and landry...not sorry to say Im glad obj is out of the huddle

Ibleedbrown

Zombo said:

We have two guys on the practice squad, JaMarcus Bradley, 6', 198, rookie LA Lafayette, and Ryan Switzer, 5'9, 183, 4th year out of UNC.

Anybody know anything about this guys?

There is no picture of Ryan Switzer on the Browns roster, but without googling, I feel pretty safe saying "gritty" white possession receiver.

Zombo

https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/browns-sign-wr-ryan-switzer-to-practice-squad

Switzer is a bit of a journeyman type guy. Been with Dallas, Raiders and Steelers before. 50 career receptions and a fair shake of kick and punt returns.

Tour2ma

@ibleedbrown said:

https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/browns-sign-wr-ryan-switzer-to-practice-squad

Switzer is a bit of a journeyman type guy. Been with Dallas, Raiders and Steelers before. 50 career receptions and a fair shake of kick and punt returns.

Always cast in that Welker/Edelman/ role, but doesn't quite have "the stuff", i.e., quicks and strength combo, to get to that level. But the rosters he has been crowded off of tend to have pretty deep WR rooms... deeper than ours anyway.

Zombo said:

Tawan Taylor becomes #4.

We have two guys on the practice squad, JaMarcus Bradley, 6', 198, rookie LA Lafayette, and Ryan Switzer, 5'9, 183, 4th year out of UNC.

Anybody know anything about this guys?

Taywan Taylor is the fools' gold I see in ours. Guy has been forever viewed as having the promise of bringing that Tyrek Hill kind of impact to a roster... and has failed to deliver at a Switzer level.

Bradley? Decent size (6' 0-3/8", 198#) and speed (4.5-ish) with big hands (10-3/8") and disproportionately long arms (77-1/4" wingspan). Doesn't look especially quick or strong... major competition level questions...

Tour2ma

So.... Peeps' season is done?

Dutch Oven

@tour2ma said:

So.... Peeps' season is done?

Huh?

Dutch Oven

I've seen the name Adam Thielen, WR from the Vikings a few times in connection with the Browns.

Nero

@dutch-oven said:

I've seen the name Adam Thielen, WR from the Vikings a few times in connection with the Browns.

I like him a lot, mostly because I think he can give us a bigger frame in the WR corps, but I think he will and actually can ask for big money.

Trading OBJ away and getting Thielen? We would still keep a mighty WR group with a more friendly cap approach, but I even would be OK with Landry, Higgins and other reliables WR2/WR3 (Hodges and DPJ aren't there yet, for me) to use the cap somewhere else; I've heard our D has some glaring holes.

Idk how are the Vikes doing with cap, but Justin Jefferson is doing well so they might think about getting some relief because they're tied to the not-so-great-but-man-does-he-have-a-contract Cousins.

On the other side, I don't know if I would consider going from Cousins to Mayfield...

mjp28

I was just looking at the predraft rankings and was wondering where DPJ was located, well.......

WR89 D. Peoples-Jones CLE bye 9. So he was the WR #89, hmmmmm. With the season about half done it's interesting to take a look back to FL Draft Day.

Oh and other notables: WR (Wide Receiver) # Name Bye. The hits and misses.....and IRs.

WR1 D. Adams GB 5

WR2 D. Hopkins ARI 8

WR3 C. Ridley ATL 10

WR4 T. Hill KC 10

WR5 Q ... J. Jones ATL 10

WR6 D. Metcalf SEA 6

WR7 A. Thielen MIN 7

WR8 A. Brown TEN

WR9 T. Lockett SEA 6

WR10 K. Golladay DET 5

WR11 Q M. Thomas NO 6

WR12 S. Diggs BUF 11

WR13 T. McLaurin WAS 8

WR14 Q. A. Robinson CHI 11

WR15 A. Cooper DAL 10

WR16 W. Fuller HOU 8

And I had trouble finding this one:

WR110 IR. O. Beckham CLE 9.... #110 but originally #1 on the IR list.

Tour2ma

@dutch-oven said:

Huh?

Just sayin' Hodge kept Higgins on the bench so what are the odds Peeps gets snaps now?

Zombo said:

Double huh?

Just sayin' Hodge kept Higgins on the bench so what are the odds Peeps gets snaps now?

Tour2ma

Have we run a 4 WR set this year?

Peeps will get his S/T snaps, but looks like few to very few at WR.

mjp28

Originally when the BROWNS got OBJ it looked like the missing piece to a super bowl run.

My how things can change.

Tour2ma

Zombo said:

I doubt we run 4 wr sets, but the guys that started out #4 and inactive played 85% and 69% of snaps last week and caught 9 out of 9 targets for 166 yards and a TD, helping our QB to a near perfect qb rating after his initial int ... so I don't think either of them are going to disappear because the great KhaDarel Hodge and his 3 catches in three games returns.

Hodge is a good blocker and set picker, Peoples is more of a potential play maker, they will both see snaps.

The implied, but unstated, name in your reply is Higgins. If my math is correct, then he supplied the other 6 catches that Peeps did not... and actually it was 6 of 8 from Baker. Plus IIRC for about 55 minutes of the game Higgins and Peeps were the #2 and 3 WRs respectively.

My point is that Higgins has earned the #3 role behind Hodge and will push him for the #2. Peeps will be the #4.

As for Hodge's low, 3-game, catch total... really just proves my other point that in our multi-TE-centric Offense the #3 (let alone the #4) WR sees little PT.

Tour2ma

Told ya Higgie would push for the #2...

Peeps size and speed... although not fast by NFL standards it would seem he is our fastest active WR (Taylor is, or was at one time, faster), so, yes, he may get shots. I just hope he doesn't become Benji predictable... in no small part because he does not have Benji speed.

MLD Woody

Being the #4 WR doesn't mean you only play when there are 4 WRs on the field...

Plus, DPJ is the most raw with the most potential. Hodge and Higgins are more likely to be at their cap. That share of snaps and targets could shift over the season..

Tour2ma

@mld-woody said:

Being the #4 WR doesn't mean you only play when there are 4 WRs on the field...

Give the man a cookie...

calfoxwc

Interesting article that just came out about DPJ:

https://www.brownsnation.com/3-surprising-facts-about-browns-wr-donovan-peoples-jones/

D Bone

I can't be the only one who sees the title of this thread and immediately thinks something else...

TexasAg1969

@calfoxwc said:

Interesting article that just came out about DPJ:

https://www.brownsnation.com/3-surprising-facts-about-browns-wr-donovan-peoples-jones/

Smart kid wants to be an MD like his Dad. Former Jets punter Steve O'Neal holds the NFL all-time unbreakable net punt record of 98 yds, but completed dental school after football and still practices today in his early 70s.

Tour2ma

@d-bone said:

I can't be the only one who sees the title of this thread and immediately thinks something else...

Why not?

You freakin', SoCal, Vegan degenerate...