Before landing Baker Mayfield with the first overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns were looking like a cursed team under center. They had gone through 29 quarterbacks since returning to the league in 1999, and it felt as though that revolving door would never stop spinning.
During that stretch, it may have been hard to believe but there was a time where that wasn’t the case. The Browns started out in the NFL as perennial winners and one of the biggest reasons for that was their star quarterback Otto Graham.