Ranking every Cleveland Browns first round draft pick since 1999
By Chad Porto
15. TE Kellen Winslow, 2004 – 6th
Kellen Winslow is a garbage person. I wish I could stop right there, but I have a minimum word count I have to hit for each slide, so here I go.
Winslow is most known for getting 15 years in prison for being a garbage person, but when he wasn’t being arrested for kidnapping and rape, he was also a football player and a pretty solid one at that. The garbage person is a former 2007 Pro Bowler for the Browns, a part of that magical 10-win team that somehow didn’t make the playoffs.
He managed a 10-year career in the NFL, not bad for a garbage person, but was plagued by injuries. Over the course of four seasons, he missed massive time due to injuries, including his first two in Cleveland, where he managed to play just two games. His fourth year was when he put it all together, and there was hope that this was the beginning of something great.
Instead, it was just the beginning of the end. He got a staph infection in 2008 and then got traded to the Buccaneers for a second and a fifth-round pick. Winslow signed a then-record contract for a tight end and never lived up to the money, bouncing around the league playing mediocre football, before becoming the garbage person we all know him as today.