Can AI help the Browns be successful?

The Cleveland Browns fully embraced the analytics movement when they hired Sashi Brown as general manager in 2013.

Never mind that the team had been using a form of analytics, even if it was not called that, as far back as head coach Paul Brown, who used intelligence tests, film study, the 40-yard dash, and other methods to help give his team an edge. Or that the Dallas Cowboys were using computers to help build their rosters in the 1970s. Or that the New England Patriots were stacking Super Bowl titles while doing deep dives into analytics.

As far as some fans and media members were concerned, the Browns were performing voodoo.

That narrative was built off a media-created image of Paul…