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Browns notebook: New defensive backs coach DeWayne Walker says Joe Haden ‘still has potential’ to reach coming off injuries

Injuries have prevented Browns cornerback Joe Haden from performing at a Pro Bowl level for the past two seasons.

Now new Browns defensive backs coach DeWayne Walker is focused on helping Haden become the elite player the seventh overall draft pick in 2010 believes he can be.

And Walker thinks Haden has yet to maximize his talent.

“He has ability, but my thing is every day we watch the tape, and there’s good and there’s bad on the tape,” Walker said last week as mandatory minicamp wrapped up. “So [I] just to try to get him to be as consistent as he can be and try to help him reach his full potential because he still has potential.