Cleveland Browns All-Time NFL Draft Team

Introducing the Cleveland Browns All-Time Draft Team. These are the best players selected by the franchise at each position.

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This is NOT a team of the greatest players in Cleveland Brown history. It’s team of top players drafted and kept by the franchise.

Otto Graham would’ve been the obvious all-time great quarterback, but he was drafted by Detroit. Lou Groza and Marion Motley weren’t drafted at all. Also, Cleveland doesn’t get credit for a great player it drafted, but played somewhere else or spent most of his career on another team.

This is the all-time draft team made up of home grown players who were drafted by, and did most of their big things, with the Cleveland Browns. The one main exception is Paul Warfield, who was special and became a Hall of Famer for Miami, but was special for the Browns before switching teams.

Cleveland Brown All-Time Draft Offense

QB – Brian Sipe, San Diego State, 1972, 13th round, 330th pick overall
RB – Jim Brown, Syracuse, 1962, 1st round, 6th pick overall
RB – Leroy Kelly, Morgan State, 1964, 8th round, 110th pick overall
WR – Gary Collins, Maryland, 1972, 1st round, 4th pick overall
WR – Paul Warfield, Ohio State, 1977, 1st round, 11th pick overall
TE – Ozzie Newsome, Alabama, 1978, 1st round, 23rd pick overall
OL – Doug Dieken, Illinois, 1971, 6th round, 142nd pick overall
OL – Alex Mack, California, 2009, 1st round, 21st pick overall
OL – Dick Schafrath, Ohio State, 1971, 2nd round, 23rd pick overall
OL – Walt Sweeney, Syracuse, 1963, 8th round, 107th pick overall
OL – Joe Thomas, Wisconsin, 2015, 1st round, 3rd pick overall

Cleveland Brown All-Time Draft Defense

DL – Rob Burnett, Syracuse, 1990, 5th round, 129th pick overall
DL – Michael Dean Perry, Clemson, 1988, 2nd round, 50th pick overall
DL – Jerry Sherk, Oklahoma State, 1981, 2nd round, 47th pick overall
DL – Walter Thomas, New Mexico State, 1965, 2nd round, 27th pick overall
LB – Chip Banks, USC, 1982, 1st round, 3rd pick overall
LB – D’Qwell Jackson, Maryland, 2006, 2nd round, 3th pick overall
LB – Clay Matthews, USC, 1978, 1st round, 12th pick overall
DB – Thom Darden, Michigan, 1972, 1st round 18th pick overall
DB – Hanford Dixon, Southern Miss, 1981, 1st round, 22nd pick overall

DB – Bernie Parrish, Florida, 1959, 9th round, 108th pick overall
DB – Eric Turner, UCLA, 1991, 1st round, 2nd pick overall