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Browns last season.He’ll try for an encore.Robinson http://www.newyorkjetsteamonline.com/trevon-wesco-jersey , a former high draft pick whose days in the NFL once seemed about over, re-signed with Cleveland on Monday for next season.The No. 2 overall selection in 2014, Robinson played all 16 games for Cleveland in 2018 starting the final eight. He solidified an important position following the retirement of 10-time Pro Bowler Joe Thomas and the team’s experiment with guard Joel Bitonio during training camp and rookie Desmond Harrison at left tackle in the season’s first half.Robinson was eligible to become an unrestricted free agent in March, but he’s decided to stay with the Browns for another season.The 26-year-old began the season behind Harrison, but was moved into the starting lineup when coach Hue Jackson was fired and replaced by Gregg Williams. With Robinson protecting quarterback Baker Mayfield’s blind side, the Browns allowed a league-low five sacks in the second half of the season after giving up 33 in the first eight games.Robinson’s security on the left side enabled Mayfield to set the league rookie record with 27 touchdown passes, and he opened holes for running back Nick Chubb, who set a club rookie mark with 996 yards rushing.Cleveland finished 7-8-1 after losing all 16 games in 2017.The Browns’ decision to re-sign Robinson will likely affect their plans in free agency and the draft. Cleveland has bigger needs on the defensive line, at linebacker and wide receiver.Robinson was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in 2014 but underperformed and was traded to Detroit in 2017. He didn’t live up to expectations with the Lions either and was released before the Browns signed him in June.The Browns also waived wide receiver Daniel Williams. He spent the final four weeks of last season on the club’s practice squad. ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)Von Miller publicly pleaded with John Elway to sign free agent quarterback Kirk Cousins this offseason only to see the Denver Broncos GM reel in Case Keenum instead.So, Miller isn’t offering his boss any advice on who to grab with the No. 5 pick in the NFL draft.”I’m cool with whatever he does with that pick Alexander Mattison Jersey ,” Miller said.So is Keenum, who swears he’ll be OK if Elway decides to draft a quarterback at 5 just six weeks after luring him to Denver with a two-year, $36 million deal that includes $25 million in guarantees.”Whoever comes in, I’ll be looking for them to help us be a better football team. No matter what position it is,” said Keenum, who’s already been declared the starter by coach Vance Joseph.The Broncos haven’t selected this high since Elway chose Miller second overall in 2011.If Elway sidesteps the deep class of quarterbacks, he’ll have his choice of blue chippers that would provide immediate help to Keenum and Miller whereas a quarterback most likely wouldn’t play until 2019.”Life is too short to rebuild in the NFL,” Elway declared this spring.If, however, he has fallen in love with one of the hyped-but-hazardous QB prospects and that man is still on the board when the Broncos are on the clock, it’s a good bet Elway will grab him even though he just signed Keenum.Elway and his lieutenants spent countless hours studying the ”Big Four ” passers – Baker Mayfield http://www.minnesotavikingsteamonline.com/dru-samia-jersey , Josh Allen, Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen – over the past several months, sending contingents to pro days, coaching Allen and Mayfield at the Senior Bowl, bringing them in for two-day visits and interviewing them at the combine.Maybe that was all a smoke screen, maybe not.Maybe they love one of them, maybe they don’t.Elway has done a good job of hiding his intentions, saying only that he’ll take ”the best player that is best for the Denver Broncos” regardless of what position he plays.”I’m open to trading,” too, Elway added, although it would certainly take a blow-me-away offer for him to move out of the fifth spot in a draft so deep in high-level Daniel Jones Jersey , even generational talent outside the enticing quarterback group.Elway always tries to fill his biggest needs in free agency so he won’t have to reach in the draft and can simply take the best player. Signing Keenum gave him that safeguard this year.Elway won’t have to settle for anything less than the QB atop his wish list, and if he’s not there, Elway can bypass the quarterbacks altogether to grab a prime playmaker at another position.RUN ON RUNNING BACKSElway suggested the Broncos will dive into the deep pool of running backs after releasing sixth-year pro C.J. Anderson last week.”It’s a deep running back class as I’m sure you’ve heard,” Elway said. ”We feel good about the fact that we’ll be able to get a good one.”KUBIAK COMEBACKGary Kubiak, Elway’s former backup, play-caller and head coach who returned to the team in a scouting role last summer has a much bigger role in drawing up the Broncos’ draft blueprints.”Gary is a very good evaluator,” Elway said. ”He has suggestions and his are very important and those go into the pot.”HITS, MISSES AND BARGAINSSince former GM Brian Xanders’ departure in 2012, Elway hasn’t drafted a single Pro Bowl player. Only the Saints and Browns join Denver in that ignominious category.Elway’s best pick since assuming more power was CB Bradley Roby at No. 31 in 2014. But his other top selections include Sylvester Williams, Shane Ray, Paxton Lynch and Garett Bolles. His second-round record is even spottier: Montee Ball Quincy Williams II Jersey , Cody Latimer, Ty Sambrailo, Adam Gotsis and DeMarcus Walker.Center Matt Paradis, a sixth-round gem in 2014, is just about his only bargain in Elway’s past five drafts.A bounce-back season in 2018 might very well come down to Elway having a draft as he did with Xanders in 2011, when they teamed up to pick Miller, Rahim Moore, Orlando Franklin, Nate Irving, Julius Thomas and Virgil Green.—