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Browns history: Former Jets GM confirms Braylon Edwards trade due to ‘LeBron James’ friends’

Jared Mueller a lifelong Browns fan from Sandusky, Ohio who serves as the Producer for Dawgs By Nature and has been covering the Cleveland Browns for over a decade including at FanSided, The OBR and USA Today.

The number of reasons that top picks have failed for the Cleveland Browns is probably too long to mention. Lack of talent, injuries, being overdrafted, poor supporting cast and lack of motivation are some of the more normal reasons but, like most Browns history, there are a number of more exact reasons.

For years it had been rumored that WR Braylon Edwards, Cleveland’s top pick in 2005, was traded to the New York Jets due to a confrontation with LeBron James and/or his friends.