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Browns re-sign wide receiver Rannell Hall, who sat out all of last season with fractured fibula.

Wide receiver Rannell Hall is set to make his comeback attempt with the Browns.
The Browns re-signed Hall on Friday. He appeared in one regular-season game with them in 2015 after they signed him off the practice squad of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He later suffered a fractured fibula in the 2016 preseason opener and sat out this past season.
Hall, 6-foot and 200 pounds, entered the NFL two years ago when he signed with the Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent.
He has appeared in just one regular-season NFL game without recording any statistics.
In three preseason games with the Buccaneers in 2015, he compiled eight catches for 104 yards. In the Browns' 2016 exhibition opener, he had two catches for 27 yards before he suffered the broken leg with 6:05 left in the third quarter.
At the University of Central Florida, Hall started 27 of the 49 games in which he appeared and tallied 145 receptions for 2,051 yards and nine touchdowns.

Don't remember this kid but I guess another body provides more competition...

Who?

this is a good signing...we have a "cuts" thread. We should also maybe have a "signings" thread as well

He's a guy with good size and speed, and worth giving a chance. He was the top performer at the combine in long jump and vertical, and his scouting report says that he has good body control.

Can he catch? Are his hands good? Away from the body? I am interested, but I don't know the guy.

One report said that his hands are so-so, and another said they were solid. Who knows? lol

Her's a guy who gets a chance in camp. The 2 most recent administrations liked him .... so maybe there's something there.

Maybe he can be our new Taylor Gabriel.

Good thing we cut that other Taylor Gabriel to make room for this new one.

yeah, but it's not like the original taylor gabriel won the super bowl

Rannell Hall made some amazing plays at UCF and I liked him every bit as much as Perriman his teammate. I saw them both as third rounders. Perriman obviously the better athlete but Hall had the ability to make some spectacular catches. Plus he was doing well this past offseason for us and into the preseason before getting hurt.

Remember the name, just not anything else. We'll see if he can contribute

At least as much as Hollywood Higgins and Ricardo Lewis.....oh wait...they didn't contribute.

Ricardo Louis was one of the worst WRs I've ever seen drafted

Has a franchise ever been as Bad as the Browns since the return in drafting WRs? Maybe The Niners?
Every GM the Browns have had failed at drafting WRs...
Savage Mangini Farmer Heckert Brown.
And the one GM who actually played WR did get one right at least for a couple years was Dwight Clark .he did ok with Kevin Johnson
Ranell Hall might have a chance to stick cause Peyton Higgins Louis are draft busts so far

I am so tired of hearing how a guy is a bust after one year all the time on here. It's never ending. It seems like every player who comes through our organization is a bust if he doesn't have a bunch of highlight plays in his rookie campaign. Then turnaround and complain how we let talent walk. More often then not that's not how it works. Guys need time. Let's give these guys a chance. I know the track record hasn't been great, but wow. Writing a player off after one season is not how you build a franchise.

+1

Who? LOL

Right position.
Wrong player

Did you see anything out of Louis and Higgins last year that made you go "wow"
I didnt.
In this day and age of the NFL front offices and coaches are looking for players that can make plays NOW.
It doesn't matter what RD he comes from.
How come the Browns can't draft players that can produce NOW.
Every pick by the Browns is a developmental pick
Meanwhile playoff teams are drafting players that are making plays now and not waiting 3 years from now
Meanwhile while the Browns are cutting their losses by year 3 or 4 those teams are reaping the benefits of
Difference makers

I am not writing him or any other receiver just yet.

I know Louis was one of the top performers at the combine in the 4 main areas...speed,vert,weightlifting and broad jump. He is a thick player as well, so he has some positive traits.

The second year is where most receivers start to hit their stride.

We'll see.

Maybe because teams that are making the playoffs, are well established and have a QB..The Browns are neither. I remember many dogging Gabriel for drops his last year here.

A wide receiver drafted by the Browns, is expected to carry four different QBs every year. You can't develop that way. There have been many games, were the WRs are getting open, but the QB of the day isn't either seeing it, or just too afraid to throw it.

There were many WRs that left good QBs to go to another team and be mediocre at best.

Coleman, on the other hand, is a high first rounder, he should be producing. But I have to give him the benefit of the doubt, due to him being injured.

Actually, maybe in the last game I said that about Lewis.

He made a few nice catches, but I had forgotten he was that big.

He looks like a stout running back with 4.4/4.5 speed.


Now we will find out he he simply looks like Greg Little at 6'2", 220lb or if he can actually catch and run routes.

So we drafted Coleman, Louis, Payton, Higgins ... that's about the least inspiring group of rookie WRs we could have picked. Not saying they won't improve or become Pro Bowlers, etc ... just a very bland group as rookies

It's not like there were a handful of rookies this year that we're going crazy.

Sterling Shephard did pretty well as a #2, possibly #3 if you count Cruz.

Michael Thomas was good in NO, with Drew Bree's throwing him the ball.

Didn't hear much about Doctson (who I wanted) in Washington.

And Tredwell had a lot of negative reports about him in Minny.

Will Fuller (again, a #2 target) was probably the most notable one unless I'm forgetting someone.

are there any other football fans who expect their fourth and fifth round wide receiver picks to "wow" you their first season?? trying to learn the professional game while catching balls from six different quarterbacks. do you really not think they will take time to develop?? if we give up on players as quickly as you do, stripper, we will never develop any players. give them some time.

obviously I don't expect them to be WOW type players in year one, but there really wasn't much to make me even feel enthused. Even if Coleman showed great flashes ... but he didnt really inspire much

I agree we have to give them a chance. Besides, how much can you learn and develop when you have 4or5 qb's throwing the ball? It was no better than training camp.

Louis Higgins and Peyton combined for a mere 25 catches 270 yds and a whopping 0 tds.
There's a reason why a player like Terrell Pryor can come along
With very little snaps at WR in career and basically ascend to be
Number 1 wr by seasons end
Cause Louis Higgins and Peyton combined don't do anything that equates
To being diffrence makers
Going through 5 qbs is just a excuse for their porous production

Ummmm....yeah, you may want to revisit the fact they were fourth round picks. Fourth rounders. There's probably a reason that every team in the league passed on them three times. Because they are projects. And the fourth round is where you find the project guys. So, to expect them to be impact, or "wow" players is just not realistic.

So, in summary: they are fourth round talents, who, if they develop, are found money. If they don't, well, they were picked in the fourth round for a reason.

Just for [censored] n' giggles, let's do a theoretical excercise. Let's say that all three of the WR's we picked in the fourth round end up being , at best, number three wide receivers. Which is entirely possible. Now, let's imagine they all three turn out to be ST studs. Would they still be considered busts? If so, why? A contributing player is a contributing player, yes? No matter where or for what position he was picked, right?

I said during the draft Richardo Louis ceiling is that of Heyward Bey...and not to touch him until the very late rounds...Browns always reach

Incorrect. He was near the top. Conley had the best vert for example. Sorry.

Either CBS or NLF.com had him as the top. Maybe it was a different year, I just looked at the "stars" signifying the top performer.

Regardless, he has a very good vertical. (and long jump, for whatever that gives him)

It cracks me up how much stock people put into combine numbers. It seems they believe track stars should be considered great football players?

Film tells you everything about players.

100% agree with you. 4.3 speed vs. 4.5 speed. What's the difference? Well, it's a measurable, ok. Hands? Can the guy that runs a 4.3 catch reliably? Or is he just "fast".

Quickness beats out speed on almost every play in football.

Strength is great. Guy can bench 225 35 times? Awesome. Some other guy, same position, can only do it 20 times? That makes the other guy stronger, NOT better at football.

I know, I get it, the combine gets into "measurables", and that's all well and good. The biggest measurable is "how does the guy play football?" Tape will tell you that. The un measurable? Heart. Desire.

It tells you a lot, but I don't totally agree with your statement, especially with mid round and lower round guys, small school guys. The combine puts them on equal footing with a guy like Garrett.

A lot of players mature later than others. Garrett may have been a man amoungst boys in HS, thus he was that 5 star who had offers at pretty much any school of any note. It's more a question of who didn't make a offer.

Then you have the guy who ends up growing 3 more inches when 19 and 20, puts on desired weight, but out of HS was a 3.5 star who didn't garner much interest by the big 5 schools other than a prefered walk. They ended up having to play at Furman or Tennessee Chattanooga where they got a "ride".

I mention UTC because we have a kid, Keionta Davis, who I think can be a pretty darn good pro at DE. I'd like to see us draft him in the 6th, but he will probably go late 5th???


Good pick whoever takes him.

Then again, he is one of those guys who will have to show up at the combine. Maybe he has a bad week, so to speak. If so, he would be one of the first I called as a UDFA, because he has the tape. Well, I guess it isn't tape anymore. He has the vid.