Corey Coleman Drafted By Browns at No. 15 Overall

Coleman was an ultra-productive receiver in the Baylor breach and will attending to accompany added explosiveness to the Browns.

The Cleveland Browns bolstered their advanced receiver band and added one of the a lot of atomic players in the 2016 NFL Draft to their agenda by selecting Baylor's Corey Coleman with the No. 15 aces in the aboriginal round.

Coleman was the Biletnik off Award champ in 2015, acquainted the nation's top bookish receiver, afterwards he hauled in 20 touchdowns and racked up 1,363 yards in the activating Baylor offense. In three years with the
Bears, Coleman becoming two All-American nods and larboard the affairs as the school's best baton in touchdown receptions (33).

But the catechism is whether Coleman created those numbers himself or if he's a artefact of a arrangement that led the nation in scoring and fabricated Kendall Wright a first-round pick. At 5'11, 194 pounds, he was fed generally through awning passes and ran a bound avenue timberline in an breach that usually asked Coleman to either: A) Wait for the brawl and afresh run by defenders, or B) run by defenders and afresh get the ball.

However, there were affluence of plays that showed Coleman has the attenuate athleticism to be a top receiver, admitting his stature. His 40.5-inch vertical was on affectation generally and that, accompanying with the receiver's tenacity, fabricated him a reliable ambition on jump balls.

Coleman's absolute amount is his adeptness to accomplish players miss, though. Like Baltimore Ravenswide receiver Steve Smith, to aftermath as a beneath alfresco receiver Coleman will accept to abstain accepting afraid at the band of scrimmage.

If the receiver can use his aristocratic crabbed movement to accomplish opposing arresting backs aroma on their attempts to jam him at the band of scrimmage, it could beggarly affluence of atomic plays. Regardless, Coleman's adeptness to contrivance tacklers should accomplish him an burning contributor on punt allotment and was the acumen Baylor fed him so generally on screens.

Pro Football Focus graded Coleman as the top receiver in the chic and aces of a top-10 pick, due to his adeptness to get break with explosiveness, acceptable able and physicality. However, it was acclaimed that he had one of the affliction bead ante of any receiver in the 2016 NFL Draft. If he acclimated his hands, Coleman generally fabricated difficult catches, but he frequently let the brawl get into his physique and alone 10 of the 84 passes PFF bent to be catchable.

Coleman's courage shouldn't appear as a abruptness because his asperous childhood. Former Lions, Broncos and Chiefs corner back Ray Crockett took Coleman beneath his wing, and the receiver's boxy adventure to become the best in academy football was accurate in an ESPN Academy Game Day feature.

"We'd be arena accouterment football on the street, and you'd apprehend gunshots," Coleman told ESPN in October. "My mom would appear out and accomplish me appear in. And afterwards an hour, I'd bastard aback out to play again. That's just the way it was. Police were consistently advancing around. Humans were accepting arrested, and sometimes humans got shot. I assumption you got acclimated to it."

The Browns addled gold at the receiver position if they landed Josh Gordon a few years ago, but the game-breaking receiver has been abeyant assorted times for biologic analysis failings. Gordon's acknowledgment to the NFL was denied in April and there's no agreement he'll even play again. Coleman brings them addition playmaker while Gordon's approaching is in limbo.