<![CDATA[Browns "best" Player Each Season]]>Pro Football Reference.com has produced this statistic which is a single number that they can assign to any player to determine how productive they have been in a particular season. It is applied to skill players or non skill players indiscriminately. I would have to refer you to the website for an explanation of how they derive the stat. Suffice it to say, the higher the number, the better that players performance has been that season.

Here is the list of which Browns players scored the highest for each Browns season since 1950:

1950 Tony Adamle 16

1951 Bill Willis 21

1952 Bill Willis 15

1953 Bill Willis 18

1954 Len Ford 23

1955 Otto Graham 17

1956 Don Colo 15

1957 Don Colo 15

1958 Jim Brown 15

1959 Jim Brown 16

1960 Jim Brown 23

1961 Jim Brown 21

1962 Jim Brown 18

1963 Jim Brown 24

1965 Jim Brown 26

1965 Jim Brown 23

1966 Leroy Kelly 19

1967 Leroy Kelly 15

1968 Leroy Kelly 18

1969 Dick Schafrath 13

1970 Clarence Scott 10

1971 Leroy Kelly 11

1972 Ben Davis 13

1973 Clarence Scott 11

1974 Greg Pruitt 9

1975 Greg Pruitt 11

1976 Greg Pruitt 13

1977 Greg Pruitt 17

1978 Brian Sipe 12

1979 Mike Pruitt 14

1980 Brian Sipe 16

1981 Brian Sipe 10

1982 Chip Banks 11

1983 Chip Banks 15

1984 Clay Matthews 14

1985 Bob Golic 14

1986 Hanford Dixon 14

1987 Hanford Dixon 15

1988 Frank Minnifield 14

1989 M.D. Perry 19

1990 M.D. Perry 12

1991 Bernie Kosar 13

1992 Michael Johnson 10

1993 Eric Metcalf 11

1994 Eric Turner 18

1995 Vinny Testaverde 9

1999 Tim Couch 8

2000 Keith McKenzie 6

2001 Jamir Miller 16

2002 Dennis Northcutt 8

2003 Kennard Lang 9

2004 Kennard Lang 8

2005 Ruben Droughns 10

2006 Kellen Winslow 8

2007 Braylon Edwards 14

2008 Shaun Rogers 11

2009 Joe Thomas 9

2010 Joe Thomas 11

2011 D'Qwell Jackson 10

Food for thought, and argument...about who the most productive player was any specific year.

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Zombo said:

LaDanian Tomilinson 29th overall

Steve Hutchinson 415th overall.

Remember that discussion?

Zombo

No, not really. Refresh my memory. Though I do know that PFR does do an accumulated career tally of this point system they devised. I haven't figured out how to find a "best career" from this. Jim Brown's number may be the highest average yearly total, but accumulation wise, him playing only 9 years would put him behind good players who played a lot longer.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/293392https://brownsboard.com/post/293392Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:38:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Browns "best" Player Each Season on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:55:02 GMT]]>RIP eric turner.

favorite player ever.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/293373https://brownsboard.com/post/293373Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:55:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Browns "best" Player Each Season on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:12:18 GMT]]>LaDanian Tomilinson 29th overall

Steve Hutchinson 415th overall.

Remember that discussion?

Zombo

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/293349https://brownsboard.com/post/293349Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:12:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Browns "best" Player Each Season on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:37:22 GMT]]>FYI, on this ranking done by PFR, the 26 that Jim Brown got in 1964 is the highest single season ranking I could find by a player. I found a few 25s like OJs 2000 year season, and Marshall Faulk and LaDanian Tomlinson each had a 25. The highest QB rank I could find was a 24 for Tom Brady's 2007 season. A few other career high production numbers:

Favre: 18. Aikman: 17. Otto Graham 18 (didn't include any AAFC years). Unitas: 19. Joe Greene 20. Campell 15. Barry Sanders 21. Walter Payton 20. Marino 21. P. Manning 21. Emmit Smith 20. Dickerson 19. Marcus Allen 18. John Elway 18.

I spent some time perusing HOF members stats and could find none better than Jim Brown's number.

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