who did the cleveland browns draft?
Jeff Faine Kellen Winslow II Braylon Edwards Kamerion Wimbley Brady Quinn Joe Thomas
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 As the war wound down with Germany 's surrender in May 1945 , the team parlayed Brown 's ties to college football and the military to build its roster . The first signing was Otto Graham , a former star quarterback at Northwestern University who was then serving in the Navy . The Browns later signed kicker and offensive tackle Lou Groza and wide receivers Dante Lavelli and Mac Speedie . Fullback Marion Motley and nose tackle Bill Willis , two of the earliest African @-@ Americans to play professional football , also joined the team in 1946 . Cleveland 's first training camp took place at Bowling Green University in northwestern Ohio . Brown 's reputation for winning notwithstanding , joining the team was a risk ; the Browns and the AAFC were nascent entities and faced tough competition from the NFL . " I just went up there to see what would happen , " center Frank Gatski said many years later . 

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 The Browns are only one of 12 NFL franchises to predate the 1960 launch of the American Football League , and only one of three such teams in the AFC . 

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 As the war began to wind down with Germany 's surrender in May 1945 , the team parlayed Brown 's ties to college football and the military to build its roster . The first signing was Otto Graham , a former star quarterback at Northwestern University who was then serving in the Navy . The Browns later signed kicker and offensive tackle Lou Groza and wide receivers Dante Lavelli and Mac Speedie . Fullback Marion Motley and nose tackle Bill Willis , two of the earliest African @-@ Americans to play professional football , also joined the team in 1946 . Cleveland 's first training camp took place at Bowling Green University in northwestern Ohio . Brown 's reputation for winning notwithstanding , joining the team was a risk ; the Browns and the AAFC were nascent entities and faced tough competition from the NFL . " I just went up there to see what would happen , " center Frank Gatski said many years later . 

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 As the Browns geared up to reactivate , the Browns Trust set up a countdown clock for the team 's return and used Hall of Famers such as Lou Groza and Jim Brown extensively to promote the team , alongside celebrity fans including Drew Carey . Lerner and Policy hired Dwight Clark , a former 49ers wide receiver , as the team 's operations director in December 1998 . The owners then signed Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator Chris Palmer in January 1999 as the reactivated team 's first head coach . The NFL then conducted an expansion draft the following month to stock the new Browns team with players . The team added to its roster through free agency , and was also given the first pick in the draft in April 1999 , which it used to draft quarterback Tim Couch . 

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 During his Browns career , Lavelli was involved in the creation of the National Football League Players Association . The concept of a union to represent players in league matters was hatched in Lavelli 's basement in 1954 . Lavelli and two teammates , Abe Gibron and George Ratterman , met every Wednesday to discuss the union . They approached Creighton Miller , a Cleveland lawyer and former Notre Dame star who had worked briefly as an assistant coach with the Browns , for help . The union was founded at a meeting before the NFL championship game in 1956 . The following year , the players got $ 50 per exhibition game , a $ 5 @,@ 000 minimum salary , injury pay and medical care . The union is now the primary representative of players in labor negotiations and disputes with the NFL . 
