Browns: All 8 players who have played at least 100 games since 1999 for Cleveland

DT Orpheus Roye – 102 ( All Starts)

Easily the first “big” free agent the Browns ever had coming back to the league in 1999. He signed with the team in 2000 and left the dreaded Pittsburgh Steelers in doing so. Not only was he a big “get” in free agency but the Browns took away one of the Steelers’ best defensive players from the few years prior.

Roye never won any awards and was never elected to a Pro Bowl and frankly, that’s a shame. Few players in not just Browns’ history but in NFL history were ever as consistently good for as long as Roye was. When you think about the fact that there have been hundreds of thousands of players to take part in the NFL, it’s very easy to say that Roye was consistently better for longer than most of the guys that ever suited up.

He played defensive tackle or end for the team depending on the front they were running at the time and started 102 games for Cleveland alone. He had 88 tackles in 2005, a career-high and one of the most impressive single seasons by a linemen ever.

For context, only other defensive linemen had more combined tackles in a season than Roye, and that being Aaron Kampman, who had 89. Roye’s ’05 season also saw him rack up the fifth most tackles in a single season by a defensive lineman, and is third all-time in assisted tackles. When we say Roye was a legend, we aren’t being hyperbolic.