Brodney Pool and Abe Elam manned the safety positions for most of the season, with Adams seeing plenty of time as well. Pool has since moved on to the New York Jets. Elam, who had no interceptions in 16 starts, returns.
The new Cleveland Browns jerseys made it very clear they were not pleased with last year's play in the secondary by taking a corner and two safeties in this year's draft. Cleveland also made a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles for veteran cornerback Sheldon Brown.
Competition should be fierce between rookie first round pick Joe Haden and veterans Brown, Wright, and McDonald for the starting corner spots. Second year player Coye Francies is also in the picture.
Francies didn't see much action last year, but is very aggressive with nice size. Don't count him out.
Whoever emerges as the starters at the cornerback positions, the Browns jerseys should be better off than they were last season. Cleveland should be deep and talented at the corners.
Cleveland had very little depth at the safety position last year. This year should be different. Rookies T.J.Ward and Larry Asante will join Elam, Adams, and Ray Ventrone in what should be a competition to watch.
Through a position change, Bowens football jerseys played his tail off and earned himself a very high ranking. Overall, Jackson played pretty well before his injury, and Barton was below-average. It's a very small sample size for Barton, so don't look too far into it.
What's alarming is that Bowens actually played better than Jackson during his time at ILB.
Chalk it up to Maiava being a rookie. For comparison's sake, he didn't do much worse than Channing Crowder, Dhani Jones, or Jerod Mayo in 2009, so there's only room to improve as last year was his rookie campaign.
Also, his best game far and away was at home against Pittsburgh. That's also a good thing. Although, if he doesn't continue to improve next year on his overall game, the Browns probably won't rely on him to be a starter in the future.
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