Bracie.
Says he's being replaced by a 3rd, 5th, UDFA, and UDFA.
If a team drafts a player or picks them up as a FA they are an unknown and would be referred to by the round they were drafted and what they 'might' be capable of doing.
If they have played we know what they have done and what their limitations are and how much they cost and can make an educated guess on what they have left in the tank.
Cleveland Browns defensive snaps from last year show that the two rookies got less snaps than the two 'starters' and I put starters in minor quotes because their was a heavy rotation used on the D-Line because Shelton was taken off the field on passing downs because he provides zero pass rush making him a two-down DL, basically he is a pure 0 tech NT.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/cle/2017-snap-counts.htm
2017 Cleveland Browns Snap Counts
- Trevon Coley - played 656 snaps or 61.42% 24 tackles 17 assists 2 sacks 2 pass defensed 1 forced fumble 1 fumble recovery
- Danny Shelton - played 467 snaps or 43.73% 20 tackles 13 assists 1 pass defensed
- Larry Ogunjobi - played 301 snaps or 28.18% 17 tackles 15 assists 1 sack
- Caleb Brantley - played 217 snaps or 20.32% 12 6 assists 1 fumble recovery
- Jamie Meider - played 179 snaps or 16.76% 8 tackles 5 assists
The big shocker is Trevon Coley who got the bulk of the snaps but if you saw him last preseason and how he performed it was not a shock. He looked great. He got push and pressured the QB basically he earned his snaps. The two rookie draft picks had to prove themselves before earning snaps and as you can see Ogunjobi earned more snaps than Brantley who began slow but caught on down the stretch.
Shelton had zero sacks and only has 1.5 in four years with the Browns showing statistically what everyone can see, he provides no push or pass rush. He also had only 1.6% of his snaps on special teams where FA DT Jamie Medier had 16.44% and Ogunjobi had 11.81% of the special team snaps providing extra benefit to the team.
It sounds like you have no clue about
Ogunjobi. PFF had him as the
fourth highest graded defender on the Browns and gave him the
2nd highest grade of any interior defender from last year's draft.
Brian Spoon @BrianSpoon FollowFollow @BrianSpoon
Top-5 @PFF graded #Browns on defense in 2017:
- Myles Garrett - 88.4
- Briean Boddy-Calhoun - 84.5
- Jason McCourty - 83.9
- Larry Ogunjobi - 82.0
- Derrick Kindred - 82.0
6:01 AM - 5 Jan 2018
Eric Brown @FauxIDs Jan 5
Replying to @BrianSpoon @PFF
Myles = #1 rookie edge defender Njoku = #1 rookie tight end
Ogunjobi = #2 rookie interior defender
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Coley is already starting and playing well. Ogunjobi had the highest grade of any interior D-Lineman on the team and the 2nd highest of any rookie interior DL from last year's draft. He will be starting next to Coley but Brantely really improved and looked great at the end of last year. Meider is the definition of a JAG but he works his tail off and adds value since he is willing to play special teams and has a low cap hit as do all of the rest of interior D-Linemen since they are on rookie contracts. Only Shelton was up for a huge salary bump (reported to be $11 million per year compared to less than $1 million for the other guys).
I like Danny Shelton, he is an anchor against the run, a pure 0 tech NT and that holds value but the Browns have guys who can fill that role at a much lower cost.