Sweat poured down Danny Shelton’s face as he dropped to the ground and did push-ups in front of a group of laughing children.
The biggest smile in the crowd, though, was found on Shelton’s face, as the Cleveland Browns’ top draft pick soaked up the atmosphere inside his new team’s facility at the Play 60 Youth Football Clinic portion of the NFL’s Rookie Symposium.
Shelton missed out on a month of OTAs because he was finishing up his degree at Washington. He hasn’t wasted a minute since he returned to Cleveland last week for mini-camp and was relishing the “home-field advantage” he was able to enjoy as he led hundreds of kids through a variety of football drills with his fellow rookie teammates.