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Browns notebook: Exchange of seventh-round draft picks with Dolphins nets cornerback Jamar Taylor

BEREA: The Browns traded Saturday for Jamar Taylor, a cornerback who has yet to live up to his draft status.

Why? They already have Justin Gilbert, and the eighth overall pick in the 2014 draft certainly fits that description as well.

“I don’t want to compare him to Justin,” Browns coach Hue Jackson said of Taylor.

The Browns traded a seventh-round draft pick (No. 231 overall) to the Miami Dolphins in exchange for Taylor and a choice (No. 250) later in the same round, which they used to select Arizona linebacker Scooby Wright.

In 2013, the Dolphins drafted the 5-foot-10, 195-pound Taylor in the second round (No.