Players come and go with any team. Everyone expects that. And sometimes, a young buck develops on the roster of another club who has picked him up and becomes a star player. That is just fate coupled with hard work and perhaps now in the right system.
But it’s another thing to have players who were once roster members of your club that are proven and then suddenly are shipped off – or cut – and become stars with their new teams; while at the same time are players at positions that you need badly.
Here are five former players cashing paychecks from other NFL clubs that the Browns could have used this season - all at positions of need.