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Former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar said Wednesday via Twitter he meant "no disrespect" to Dwight Clark when he made a quip cheap jerseys china on Cleveland radio about Clark's ALS diagnosis.

"We had a bad weekend wholesale jerseys china with Gale Sayers being diagnosed [with dementia] ... Dwight Clark with ALS," Kosar said on WKNR, ESPN-Cleveland, on Wednesday. "I could make a joke about his struggles in picking players when he was here. It almost makes me wonder if maybe it started earlier."

Clark was the Browns' director of football operations when the franchise resumed operations for the expansion years. He was with the team from wholesale jerseys 1999-2002.

Kosar cheap jerseys from china later addressed the comment on Twitter:

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Kosar played for the Browns from 1985 to 1993 and in the NFL until 1996. He has admitted he is dealing with post-concussion syndrome since he left the NFL.

Kosar said he was meeting after the interview with a chemist and scientist to address his health issues with genetic cheap nfl jerseys and holistic treatments.

"The Lou Gehrig's disease is a rough one," Kosar said in a serious tone.

PHOTOS: North Carolina Pro Day, March 21, 2017
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By Jeff Schudel, The News-Herald & The Morning Journal
POSTED: 03/22/17, 4:03 PM EDT | UPDATED: 1 DAY AGO 0
Quarterback Mitch Trubisky passes during North Carolina’s pro day in Chapel Hill, N.C., on March 21.
Quarterback Mitch Trubisky passes during North Carolina’s pro day in Chapel Hill, N.C., on March 21. Gerry Broome — The Associated Press
Mel Kiper Jr., the best-known draft analyst in the country if not the best at the job, has the Browns taking quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with the 12th pick in his third mock draft released March 22.

Kiper’s mock drafts are anticipated like the revelation of Academy Award nominees every January. They get more attention than those of others in the industry primarily because Kiper has been analyzing NFL drafts since 1981 when he founded Draft Publications Inc. when he was 21 years old. He started working for ESPN in 1984.

This is Kiper’s first mock draft in which he has the Browns taking Trubusky.

“This might be the ideal situation for the Browns, getting the top overall prospect at No. 1 (Myles Garrett) and the top quarterback at No. 12,” Kiper wrote. “This is assuming cheap nfl jerseys they don’t use draft capital to trade for Patriots backup Jimmy Garoppolo, who could still be available if the price is right. Trubisky (6-foot-2, 222 pounds), who went to high school in Northeast Ohio (Mentor High) and is a Cleveland sports fan, completed 68.2 percent of his passes and had 30 touchdown passes and six interceptions in his first season as a starter. The potential is there, but he’s green. Trubisky could compete with Cody Kessler and give the Browns some hope for the future.”

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Kiper unveiled his first cheap jerseys china mock draft on Jan. 19 and his second on Feb. 15. In both, as well as Mock Draft 3.0, he has the Browns taking Garrett, the defensive end from Texas A&M, with the first pick.

Trubisky went to the San Francisco 49ers with the second pick in Kiper’s first two wholesale jerseys drafts. Since then, the 49ers signed Brian Hoyer on March 9 and Matt Barkley one day later.

Kiper switched his 49ers’ selection with the second pick to Stanford defensive end Solomon Thomas. Ironically, Thomas gave Trubisky fits in the 2016 Sun Bowl.

Trubisky is the first quarterback off the board in Kiper’s Mock Draft 3.0. He has the Arizona Cardinals taking Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson with the 13th pick and no other quarterbacks going in the first round.

Trubisky and the rest of the draft-eligible North Carolina Tar Heels had wholesale jerseys china their pro day March 21. Trubisky limited his work in front of scouts from virtually every NFL team to passing drills. He did not run or lift.

Todd McShay of ESPN attended Trubisky’s pro day as well as Watson’s and said Trubisky performed better, describing the effort as “a really crisp, clean workout.”

Trubisky cheap jerseys completed 52 of 60 passes in the workout at Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 23 of 27 on short throws and 29 of 33 on deep ones. Four passes were dropped.

“If I go back home to Cleveland, that’d be exciting. But wherever I go, I’m going to give that organization absolutely everything I’ve got, and it’s going to be a dream come true no matter what,’’ Trubisky told Mike Mayock on NFL Network. “I was just looking back at my journey and how far I’ve come as a quarterback and I think everything I’ve gone through whether it wasn’t playing and the season I had last year, all the defenses I’ve seen and all the football I’ve cheap jerseys from china been around, I’m finally ready to take that next leap to the next level.

“I know how to work, I know how to be a great team player, but I also know how to be that leader, know how to be that starting quarterback. I can do everything you need me to do on the field but I’m definitely that guy that you want leading your franchise and leading your locker room.’’

The biggest knock on Trubisky throughout this process is he started only 13 games at North Carolina. The lack of experience made Mayock one of his sternest critics, but after the pro day workout, Mayock said, “(Trubisky) really helped himself today.’’

Mayock told him, “You had a great day today.”

This just in — no, wait, it’s been in for at least 32 games. Not only do the Browns need to find a pass rusher and a quarterback in the draft next month, they need help at virtually every other position — none more than cornerback.

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Browns Executive cheap jerseys china Vice President of Football Operations Sashi Brown is expected to use the first pick April 27 on defensive end Myles Garrett from Texas A&M.

If Brown doesn’t trade the 12th pick for a quarterback or use it to select one, nobody should complain if he uses it on one of four cornerbacks — Marlon Humphrey from Alabama, Chidobe Awuzie from Colorado, Tre’Davious White from LSU or Gareon Conley from Ohio State.

Sidney Jones was projected as a first-round pick until he cheap jerseys from china suffered a torn Achilles tendon at the Washington Pro Day on March 12.

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The Browns gave up a franchise record wholesale jerseys 36 touchdown passes last season. New defensive coordinator Gregg Williams is not going to fix that with the current secondary.

Joe Haden, a first-round pick in 2010 and the longest tenured Brown after Joe Thomas, hasn’t played well since 2014. Injuries affected his performance in 2015 and again last year. He is determined to play like an elite cornerback this season, but determination doesn’t always translate into results.

Marshon Lattimore of Ohio State is generally regarded as the best cornerback in the draft. He is projected as a top 10 pick.

Cornerback is a deep position in the 2017 draft, so the Browns could get a good one at the top of the second round with the 33rd overall pick, but by then the best of the best will be snatched up by other teams. Usually when one player at a particular position is picked, a run on that position begins.

“When the ball is snapped, it’s ‘find ball, see ball, get ball’ on defense,” Williams said when asked about his coaching philosophy. “We’ve got to — in cheap jerseys this wild, throwing league — limit the balls that go over our head in a hurry.”

That would indicate Williams prefers fast cornerbacks to big ones if he can’t have one that is both.

NFLDraftScout.com ranks Humphrey second behind Lattimore, and Mike Mayock of NFL Network ranked Humphrey third behind Jones and Lattimore before Jones was injured.

Pro Football Focus ranks Humphrey — at 6-foot, 197 pounds — seventh among cornerbacks but still 35th among all players in this year’s draft — an indication of the talent level at the position.

“Struggles to find the ball in the air and play through the receiver’s hands, leading to (giving up) too many big plays,” PFF warns in its evaluation of Humphrey.

Awuzie is 6-foot, 200 pounds. He ran a 4.43 40-yard dash, so he checks off both the size and speed boxes. Awuzie is a “lockdown corner and fluid athlete with terrific awareness for the position. Good closing speed and times his leaps well to break up receptions,” according to Rob Rang of NFLScout.com.

Pro Football Focus ranks White as the third best cornerback behind Lattimore and Teez Tabor of Florida. White is 5-foot-11, 192 pounds with 4.47 speed in the 40.

“A really solid tackler in 2016, especially for a defensive back,” The PFF scouting report says on White. “Missed just five tackles, ranking in the top 21 percent of all cornerbacks with at least 500 defensive snaps this year. ... Fantastic athlete who doubled as a punt returner. Can put points on the board both on defense and special teams.”

The Browns searched unsuccessfully for a punt returner all of 2015.

Conley is ninth in the Pro Football Focus and NFLDraftScout.com cornerback rankings. He is 6-foot, 197 pounds. Conley could be available with the 33rd pick if the Browns want to take their chances.

“Well-schooled in press and off-man coverages with experience moving inside to cover the slot,” Dane Brugler wrote for NFLDraftScout.com. “Displays the downhill burst and chops to be a factor in run support.”

Mayock ranked Jones as the best cornerback in the draft before Jones suffered the torn Achilles tendon on the final drill of the Washington Pro Day. Jones ran a 4.47 40-yard dash before the injury. He did not allow a single cheap nfl jerseys touchdown pass in 2016, according to Pro Football Focus.

The knock on Jones even before the devastating injury is at 6-foot, 186 pounds, he isn’t as big as some of the best cornerbacks in the league. Still, according to Lance Zierlein of NFL.com, in an analysis written before the injury: “Prioritizes ball over man and attacks catch point with slaps and rips. Twitchy feet for click-and-close transitions and instant change of direction from shuffle technique. Solid recovery quickness.”

The injury could drop Jones into the third or fourth round, but the team drafting him could hit the jackpot for future years, even if he misses his entire rookie season.

True, the Browns aren’t going anywhere until they get a quarterback. But last year they were 30th in the league when they gave up 452 points, and that has to change, too.

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PITTSBURGH -- As if NFL running backs needed another sobering reminder of their declining market, 2017 free agency happened. Nearly two weeks into new league year, one of the best backs of this generation, Adrian Peterson, remains unemployed. Eddie Lacy settled for a one-year prove-it deal with a weight clause. At least 25 unrestricted free-agent tailbacks are unemployed, more than any other NFL position.

Le'Veon cheap jerseys china Bell -- a semblance of financial hope for the modern back -- can either succumb to this distressed landscape or lift it up. The litmus test for backs everywhere: Can a 25-year-old who creates yards on his own, catches passes like a slot receiver and carries a $12.1-million franchise tag into negotiations reset the running back market in a resounding way over the next four months?

Matching or surpassing LeSean McCoy's league-leading $8 million per year wholesale jerseys china is possible, if not likely. But where exactly Bell's number falls isn't so clear-cut for some.

Former Cleveland Browns general manager Phil Savage says Bell is a "special player," undoubtedly one of the best for the playoff-ready Pittsburgh Steelers. Savage also believes the Steelers have leverage because of Bell's position, his history with injuries (missed action in three straight playoffs) and suspensions in back-to-back seasons for drug-related offenses.

"If Le'Veon Bell wants to get a long-term deal, this is going to be his best and sort of only chance to get that done," said Savage, now a front office analyst for ESPN. "In general with running backs, the supply so far outweighs the demand. If I went down 20 tailback names in the draft, I'd say a lot of those guys could play some role in a backfield by committee. It's such a fungible asset. So for as great as he is, that challenge is there."

Will Le'Veon Bell be able to break the back in a league that tends to take running backs for granted? Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images
Bell is not in the same discussion as Lacy, who hasn't produced a 1,000-yard season since 2014, or Peterson, whose prime-earning years have long passed. But Bell does represent a position that pays less despite its central role in a team's success.

The five highest-paid running backs in 2012 got $10.8 million per year on average, compared to $7.3 million in 2017 (looking at long-term deals only, not franchise tags like Bell's), despite both years producing 19 rushers with at least 200 carries and a salary cap that's ballooned 47 percent since 2011.

Even in Bell's own division, opposing starters Isaiah Crowell, Jeremy Hill and Kenneth Dixon play on modest rookie deals and share backfields.

With Peterson's monster $14 million per year contract officially off the Minnesota Vikings' books, the drop to McCoy was precipitous.

If Bell's salary vaults the highest-paid tailbacks, the Steelers will make him earn it.

The Steelers typically don't structure contracts with front-loaded guarantees outside the signing bonus and maybe a roster bonus after year one or two. J.I. Halsell, a former Washington Redskins salary cap official and free-agent consultant, calls the Steelers' contracts more "cash-flow deals" for that reason.

The tailback market can help Bell in this case, Halsell said, because surpassing McCoy's number is manageable.

"If that [McCoy] deal is a few years old, and we know the cap has increased, and we know he's one of, if not the top, running backs in the game, you can make the argument Le'Veon should be a $10-million-per-year running back," Halsell said. "That's not an unreasonable number."

The Steelers can assuage cheap jerseys concerns about Bell's missed games by adding per-game, roster-bonus incentives to his contract, Halsell said.

Savage also wouldn't be surprised if Bell hits the $10 million mark because of his importance to the team as a rusher and receiver, something he can employ more as he hits his late 20s. Bell used both skills to produce 157 yards from scrimmage per game in 2016, third-most in NFL history for a tailback.

What could hurt Bell, Savage said, is aiming for Peterson-type money. Bell playfully suggested he's worth $15 million per year in a rap song last summer, but that was before his three-game suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy.

Teammate Antonio Brown is hitting that number thanks to a mega-extension signed in February, becoming the fifth receiver to hit that threshold in a league that values quarterback-receiver cheap nfl jerseys continuity. Bell was his own team's MVP in 2016, but Brown was always getting more money because of the dynamics involved.

That's why Bell must find a way to maximize his worth without using the franchise tag to his disadvantage. Running backs don't have the same freedoms as, say, Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins, who can play out his franchise tag and parachute into a quarterback-starved clubhouse through free agency.

"Maybe the Steelers would pay him the franchise number and be done. Who knows?" Savage said. "You don't want to push so far that you push yourself out the door. A huge number would stick out like a sore thumb cheap jerseys from china at that position. But a good number certainly seems possible given his talents."

Steelers general manager Kevin wholesale jerseys Colbert is on record that he wants Bell to retire a Steeler, and the franchise only gives big contracts to players they think are capable of playing them out.

Bell recently joked from his locker that his performance as a second-round pick in 2013 helped convince teams they should invest in tailback talent earlier in the draft, a nod to top-10 picks Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott.

Before those two test the true value of the running back in a few years, Bell can pay it forward once again.

"He can set a new standard," Halsell said.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Adrian Peterson, who celebrated his 32nd birthday on Tuesday, is spending the offseason working out at his gym in Houston while waiting to discover the identity of his employer for the first time in 10 years. The Minnesota Vikings already told their all-time leading rusher they won't be bringing him back after signing Latavius Murray. As Peterson looks for a new team, there could cheap jerseys china be a shortage of immediate dance partners.

The Oakland Raiders have an opening after Murray's departure and seemed like a logical fit for Peterson thanks to the strength of their offensive line and their willingness to put the quarterback under center. But they've been reported in recent days cheap jerseys to be seeking a trade for Marshawn Lynch, should he come out of retirement.

The New York Giants -- another cheap jerseys from china team Peterson had mentioned -- signed former 49ers running back Shaun Draughn to join their group of backs on Tuesday. The Green Bay Packers have some interest in a visit with Peterson, but it's believed that might not happen until after the team can take stock of its roster following the draft.

There hasn't been an obvious fit for Peterson, now two weeks removed from the start of the free-agent negotiating period and three weeks wholesale jerseys china removed from the day the Vikings announced they wouldn't pick up his $18 million option for 2017. And as Vikings coach Mike Zimmer talked on the team's radio flagship on Tuesday about the addition of Murray, he highlighted some ways the 27-year-old's game might fit better with the Vikings' offense at this point than Peterson's would.

"Obviously, he's a big back -- almost 6-3, 225 -- he's got strength in his running game, power in his running game. He catches the ball well out of the backfield, and is a good pass protector and receiver," Zimmer said of Murray. "I just think his wholesale jerseys big-play ability, being able to catch the ball, not having to substitute him on third downs, a lot of those are big for him."

Although Peterson would undoubtedly like to know where he'll spend the 2017 season, there's an argument to be made for him waiting things out. A deep running back class could mean more teams head into OTAs with their running back situation settled, but cheap nfl jerseys an untimely injury could create an opening for a veteran like Peterson. As the three-time rushing champion switches teams for the first time in his career, it behooves him to find the right fit as much as it does to find the best price.

As Peterson marks his 32nd birthday during the middle of his second week on the open market, it appears possible he could be biding his time for a while yet. It's likely not the reception he expected in free agency, but the right fit for the running back could present itself in time.