Zombo said:

Lou Groza is Tricky. He may not be a Top 7 Tackle, and he may not be a Top 2 kicker ... but I think is a Top 100 Player.

4-time NFL Champion, 9 Pro Bowls, 4 All-Pros, 1 League MVP.

Kickers weren't as accurate then, be he was as dependable as they came at the time, and as a Tackle he was a Mauler.

A real throwback football player and a champion ... best of the best.

Z

Maybe the committee thought they had  met the Browns quota of "old timers"  when they gave us Marion Motley on the RB list.  And, like you said, Groza was a more all round player, and they wanted to deal in specialists .  (though they did put Bednarik in at LB...and he was a 2 way player.

@warriorsrpussies said:

Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.

I thought Joe had a shot, but I really can't argue him in place of any of the OTs selected... even the geezers like Shell and Brown.

@warriorsrpussies said:

Wonder where Joe Thomas will be ranked.

Not in the Top 100:

OTs named:

Anthony Munoz;   Forrest Gregg; Art Shell; Roosevelt Brown;  Jonathan Ogden; Cal Hubbard; Walter Jones

OGs named:

Jim Parker; John Hannah; Larry Allen; Gene Upshaw; Dan Fortman; Randall McDaniel; Bruce Mathews

OCs name:

Mike Webster;  Dwight Stephenson; Jim Otto;  Mell Hein

Coaches:

  Halas,  Lambeau; Landry; Lombardi   (they had previously named some others in this category)

Tight Ends named:

Mike Ditka; Tony Gonzales; Gronkowski; John Mackey;  Kellen Winslow

So:  No Groza or JT;  no Hickerson;  no Gatski;  no Shafrath;  no Ozzie.......no Browns at ALL