CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland, home of Pro Bowl safeties.
In the not-so-distant past, this claim could be made, after T.J. Ward, Tashaun Gipson and Donte Whitner gave the Browns three difference safeties in the Pro Bowl over a two-year span in 2013 and 2014.
In the spring of 2015, Whitner was claiming the Browns featured one of the top two secondaries in the NFL.
Two years later, Ward, Gipson and Whitner are gone and the Browns missed on safeties Bradley McDougald and Tony Jefferson in free agency. The position continues to grow in importance and value in the pass-happy NFL.