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Browns "best" Player Each Season

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  • The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #1

    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.

  • The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #2

    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.

  • Z Zombo wrote on
    #3

    LaDanian Tomilinson 29th overall

    Steve Hutchinson 415th overall.

    Remember that discussion?

    Zombo

    The GipperT 1 Reply
  • miktoxicM miktoxic wrote on
    #4

    RIP eric turner.

    favorite player ever.

    👍
  • Z Zombo

    LaDanian Tomilinson 29th overall

    Steve Hutchinson 415th overall.

    Remember that discussion?

    Zombo

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #5

    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.

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