Ranking every Cleveland Browns first round draft pick since 1999
By Chad Porto
18. OL Cameron Erving, 2015 – 19th
As I said before, the Browns have a host of guys who had long careers in the NFL, just not very remarkable ones. Cameron Erving is one of those players. Erving played just two subpar years in Cleveland before being traded to Kansas City.
As a member of the Chiefs, he was a spot-starter, filling in for injured players but playing well enough to stick around and compete for a Super Bowl. He’s now in an elite club of players who have won a National Championship in college and a Super Bowl in the NFL.
Despite his championship accolades, however, Erving has never proven to be a regular starter in the NFL outside of a brief few years early on. He played for a year in Dallas, where the Cris Collinsworth owned PFF says he played fine, and then he played a year in Carolina for the Panthers, where PFF said he played fine again.
He’s very much a Chris Hubbard-like player, but Hubbard was an undrafted player. Erving was a first-round pick. What can be said about Erving in a positive manner is his versatility. He played left tackle, center, and defensive tackle in college, so maybe the Hubbard comparison is more apt than I realized.