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Round one potential draftee would give Cleveland bookend quality defensive ends"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Daily Dawg ChowRufio’s PlaybookDE Jachai Polite: How Would Drafting this Player Make the Browns Better? New Johnny Manziel Jersey 2019 ,13commentsRound one potential draftee would give Cleveland bookend quality defensive ends ESTShareTweetShareShareDE Jachai Polite: How Would Drafting this Player Make the Browns Better? Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sportsa DBN exclusive seriesThe Browns’ offense next season in all likelihood will be one of the NFL’s most explosive. So, in the draft the club will want to assist the defense and grab some much needed help at key positions. With Myles Garrett on one side and the newly-traded Olivier Vernon now manning the other side, perhaps a young stud to groom and insert for a blow to either pass rushing demon might be just what the Browns are looking for with a three-man rotation. Jachai Polite is a highly-ranked DE with a nose for the backfield. He has impressed NFL scouts with his athleticism specifically his ability to bend under the OT’s edge and get to the quarterback. In his junior year, he was regularly double-teamed because of his backfield presence and frequent hits on the opposing team’s QB. Yet despite the efforts to slow him down he registered 11 sacks. He is also excellent against the run and not simply a pass rushing demon. For Browns’ fans, Polite can also slide inside and paired with DEs Garrett/Vernon would make any offensive coordinator’s dream job a nightmare. Specifics: College: FloridaHeight: 6’-2”Weight: 260 pounds 40-time: 4.84Career Tackles: 77 Career Forced Fumbles: 8 Career Sacks: 14 Positives: Explosive first step best in draft classMay be best pass rusher in this year’s draft classVery quick and tenacious Great run stopperExcellent length to long-arm OTsInstinctive as a pass-rusherPlayed in powerful SEC against strong competitionFirst Team All-SEC 2018 Double-digit sacks 2018 (11)Negatives: May be considered undersized Not considered a three-down DENeeds to bulk-up to take on NFL OTsFrequent double-teams in college kept his numbers downExpert Draft Site Analysis:Draftcountdown.comCould Jachai Polite be in the Browns’ future and help with the pass rush? CLEVELAND (AP) — Freddie Kitchens got his formal, sit-down interview with the Browns. He aced the on-field one.Kitchens Orange Terrance West Jersey , who in eight weeks rose from unknown assistant to hot coaching commodity, became the seventh candidate to interview for Cleveland’s juicy job on Monday. Kitchens met with members of the club’s search committee led by general manager John Dorsey and including owner Jimmy Haslam, who were already impressed by what the 44-year-old did on an interim basis.Taking over play-calling duties on Oct. 29 when coordinator Todd Haley was fired, Kitchens transformed Cleveland’s offense while forging a strong relationship with quarterback Baker Mayfield, who set the NFL rookie record with 29 touchdown passes.Kitchens jump-started the biggest turnaround season in club history and may now get the chance to do more — or stick around as the team’s next offensive coordinator.The Browns think so much of Kitchens that they’ve denied other teams permission to interview him. He’s under contract, and if the club decides to hire another coach Terrance West Jersey 2019 , it’s clear they want Kitchens around.He began the season coaching running backs before being promoted to coordinator when Haley and coach Hue Jackson were dumped following a loss in Pittsburgh. But once Kitchens got his hands on Cleveland’s offense, nothing was the same.The Browns improved in virtually every statistical category under Kitchens, who showed fearlessness and imagination in his play-calling. He employed a “Wishbone-type” backfield formation, had wide receiver Jarvis Landry throw several passes and had Mayfield pitch the ball to himself before completing a long TD pass in the season finale at Baltimore.With Kitchens in charge, Cleveland’s offense was balanced, unpredictable and exciting.Mayfield was magnificent.In eight games under Kitchens Orange Bernie Kosar Jersey , Mayfield completed 68 percent of his passes, threw 19 TDs and just eight interceptions and was sacked only five times.“He’s moved the ball,” Dorsey said last week when asked about Kitchens’ impact. “He’s gotten the ball out of the quarterback’s hands quicker. He’s put some flair and different route combinations together that help out the quarterback. I just think overall he’s kind of moved the bar on the offensive side of the ball.”Kitchens never once campaigned to be Cleveland’s coach, but said leading a team was his goal.“Definitely. No doubt,” Kitchens said in his thick, Alabama drawl when asked if he had head coaching ambitions. “I heard the other day somebody say something about I wasn’t ready to be a head coach. I mean Bernie Kosar Jersey 2019 , who the hell’s ready to be a head coach? You have a resume that you check off the list and everything?”Kitchens’ resume stacks up with any of the other candidates Cleveland has met with so far.The Browns are now in their second week of interviews, which began with interim coach Gregg Williams, who went 5-3 after replacing Jackson. The Browns have also interviewed former Colts and Lions coach Jim Caldwell, Saints assistant head coach/tight ends coach Dan Campbell, Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus, Patriots linebackers coach Brian Flores and Vikings interim offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski.It’s possible Dorsey will meet with former Packers coach Mike McCarthy Orange Antonio Callaway Jersey , but no interview has been scheduled. The Browns are very familiar with McCarthy, who worked with Dorsey, assistant GM Eliot Wolf and vice president of player personnel Alonzo Highsmith in Green Bay.