Zips Offered Braylon Edwards a Scholarship?

[Captain Kangaroo]

Cleveland rookies gather for minicamp

4/29/2005, 3:00 p.m. PT

By TOM WITHERS

The Associated Press

Braylon Edwards pulled on a white knit stocking cap with a menacing dog logo and slipped into a pair of shorts as orange as Halloween.

"I like it," the Browns' wide receiver and first-round draft pick from Michigan said of Cleveland's dominant team color. "It's bright and bold — kind of like myself."

On the other side of the locker room, quarterback Charlie Frye stood in front of a mirror and snapped on his shiny helmet.

"I thought I looked good," Frye said proudly. "I think it's a good fit."

Browns coach Romeo Crennel opened his first two-day minicamp for rookies and undrafted free agents on Friday, giving 42 players their initial taste of life in the NFL. For many of them it will be their one and only pro experience.

For Edwards, Frye and the other six players Cleveland took in last weekend's draft, it's just the beginning of what they and the Browns hope will be fruitful careers filled with Pro Bowl appearances, AFC championships and Super Bowl rings.

Before breaking off for meetings and taking the field for practice, several of the new Browns lounged around on the locker room floor reviewing notes and their playbooks one last time.

Safety Brodney Pool, the team's second-round pick, wanted to be prepared.

"I just know the coaches are going to quiz me on something," said the club's second-round pick. "I'd better know where I'm supposed to be."

This weekend is the first chance for Frye and Edwards, a pass-and-catch combination the Browns hope click for years to come, to get to know each other better. They never could have imagined after meeting at the NFL scouting combine in February that they would soon be roommates.

When Frye walked into their hotel room on Thursday, he was greeted with a warning from Edwards.

"The first thing he said was, 'You better not snore,'" Frye said. "I don't."

Edwards noted that he and Frye had immediate chemistry before hooking up for their first pass completion, a crisp 12-yard out pattern during a drill at the beginning of Friday's workout.

"He's a good guy," said Edwards, who was offered a scholarship by Akron and could have been Frye's teammates four year sooner. "He doesn't snore and he doesn't mind the TV being on at night. I'm a night owl and I can't sleep without the TV."

The two spent their first night as Browns teammates going over their new playbooks and talking — mostly about their golf games.

Edwards was impressed to learn that Frye regularly shoots in the low 80s.

"I shoot 99," Edwards said. "He's giving me strokes right now. We've set a date to see who can really play."

[Wally B]

When ever I'm asked "What do you want?", I reply, a million dollars.

Am I going to get it? NO.

Have I lost anything? NO.

There's little chance my wish will be fulfilled.

However....... If I fail to make that wish, it's impossible.

So the question is wether you'd have the Zips try for a player w/ BE's potential , or take the next Randy Moss after FSU gets tired of his

I hope this combination works out for Charlie. Go #9

[Dr Z]

On the other side of the locker room, quarterback Charlie Frye stood in front of a mirror and snapped on his shiny helmet.

"I thought I looked good," Frye said proudly. "I think it's a good fit."

His photo in the PD looked like the great pumpkin strapped to his head.

Is there any NFL team that needs to redo their unis worse than the Browns?

Orange is U-G-L-Y. Use Brown. Might even fit with your name!?!

[Kangaroo Craig]

How many more yards would Frye have had if Edwards was his target here? Might we have won the MAC last year? One can only dream. If edwards had played here instead of Michigan, and put up the same numbers, he would have been a second or third round draft pick like Frye. It would have cost him some money initially.