Cleveland Browns Search For Fountain of Youth, Cut Six Veteran Players

February 10, 2011   ·   Brandon Sommers   ·   Jump to comments

Today, the Cleveland Browns new head coach Pat Shurmur made his first mark on the teams roster by cutting six veteran players.
The move was almost anti-climatic, as it's been widely reported that the Browns will be completely changing both offensive and defensive schemes and most of these players were brought in by former coach Eric Mangini to fit his schemes.
Robert Royal, John St. Clair, Shaun Rogers, Kenyon Coleman, David Bowens and Eric Barton were all shown the door this morning in a move that really shouldn't surprise anyone.
The one thing that all these players had in common was that they're all over the age of 30 and have been mostly unproductive players who have been eating space on the roster.
This is a clear move by the new coaching staff to get younger on both sides of the ball.
This will undoubtedly disappoint a certain insipid writer (who will remain nameless) who has been advocating that the Browns sign Brett Favre, as they would consider th...

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