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Browns' draft signals end to era of the unimportant receiver

The Cleveland Browns more or less ignored the wide-receiver position in the draft during the Ray Farmer era.

That course has been reversed under Sashi Brown and Andrew Berry.

The Browns took four receivers in the 2016 draft, as many as they selected from 2011-2015 (counting Josh Gordon as a supplementary pick).

The number is five if Seth DeValve is included. DeValve played both tight end and receiver at Princeton, but the Browns list him as a tight end. He joins Corey Coleman, Ricardo Louis, Jordan Payton and Rashard Higgins as new Browns pass-catchers.