to the New England Patriots on Monday in exchange for a fifth-round selection in the 2019 NFL Draft. The Patriots will also receive a conditional seventh-round selection in the 2019 NFL Draft.The Browns announced the move on the team website. Thus ends one of the strangest tenures of a Browns player in franchise history.Cleveland selected Gordon in the 2012 Supplemental Draft after a troubled collegiate career that saw him be asked to leave from both Baylor and Utah. After a respectable rookie year Youth Emmanuel Ogbah Jersey , Gordon was hit with a two-game suspension by the NFL to open the 2013 season. He came back to post his lone good season as a pro, but what a season it was as he led the NFL with 1,646 receiving yards. It all went downhill from there, however, as Gordon continued to run afoul of the league’s substance-abuse policy as he was suspended for 11 games in 2014, all of the 2015 and 2016 seasons, and the first 11 games of last season.Along the way there were numerous exclamations that Gordon was “back,” only for fans and the Browns to see Gordon’s career repeatedly interrupted. Gordon took a leave of absence from the team this past summer during training camp and returned in time to start the season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers, where he caught a touchdown pass on his only reception of the day.The Browns finally reached their breaking point with Gordon over the weekend when he showed up at team headquarters with a hamstring issue. The Browns made him inactive for Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints, announced they planned to release him and then worked out the trade with the Patriots.There are some Browns fans who will lament that the Browns decided to finally move on from Gordon, but it is hard to miss a player who has only been eligible for 41 of a possible 96 games in his career and has posted just 43 receptions and two touchdowns since 2013.The Browns, more than anyone else in the NFL, know what is going on with Gordon’s personal life and finally decided that six years was more than enough to wait around for him to show that 2013 was not just a fluke season.The team also supported Gordon to an extent that the NFL has likely never seen Youth Duke Johnson Jr Jersey , as head coach Hue Jackson commented on when the trade was announced:Truer words may never have been spoken in the history of the NFL.Browns will not move Duke Johnson to receiver The Cleveland Browns will not be moving Duke Johnson to wide receiver despite his desire and apparent ability to make the switch.With Corey Coleman gone, and Johnson having played the slot receiver position some last season, it seemed like Cleveland might toss around the idea of changing Johnson’s position.He even recently said he prefers the receiver position over running back.“I would rather play wide out,” Johnson said following Coleman’s trade to Buffalo. “I think that I enjoy wide out and have more fun playing wide out than I do playing running back.”But coach Hue Jackson shot down the position switch hoopla quickly, just hours after Johnson’s Monday morning pre-practice comments.“Let me make this clear, Duke’s position will not change,” Jackson said following Monday’s training camp session. “Will Duke get the opportunity to go out there as a back in our packages and play receiver? “Yes, he will.”So, while Jackson doesn’t envision swapping Johnson from running back to receiver, he has left the door open to continue to implement him into the game plan in different ways.On a team lacking weapons, one which has a suddenly crowded backfield after adding both Carlos Hyde and Nick Chubb this offseason, that seems to make total sense. It makes more sense than maybe anything else about this 2018 Browns team.“Duke is a very vital part of what we do on offense,” Jackson said. “He has been a playmaker ever since I have been here. He will continue to do that.”Johnson’s motivation to switch and prove himself as a receiver could have something to do with his future paychecks White Jarvis Landry Jersey , which would likely land him a higher salary on his next deal. But he has was signed to three-year extension recently, so maybe he really does just enjoy catching the ball better than running it.But along with Jackson’s denial of a position swap, he isn’t getting much help from the team to aid his hopeful transition.Johnson said he hasn’t been included in any receiver meetings and isn’t receiving coaching on route-running, but that hasn’t kept him from putting in work to develop his route tree.“I have been working on it for a while now,” Johnson said. “Some [routes] are harder than others, but for the most part, I can do most of the things.”Look, depth chart and roster position designations are nice and give us warm and fuzzies so that we can try to wrap our heads around the inner workings of Jackson and Todd Haley’s brains. But they mean very little other than for pay scale and roster composition purposes.Those directing the Browns offense are going to find ways to get the ball into Johnson’s hands. Call him a running back, call him a wide receiver, call him whatever your heart desires, just make sure he gets the ball this fall.
