Who is the best left tackle in football? If Cleveland's Joe Thomas isn't the best, he isn't far behind. Other Browns players have admitted the only reason why quarterback Derek Anderson was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2008 was because Thomas was an absolute wall on the left side. Thomas has been selected to the Pro Bowl all five years he has been in the NFL. It's pretty easy to say #73 is a badass.
Who else currently on the Browns could be called a badass? Running back Peyton Hillis was in 2010, but his refusal to play with minor injuries erased any possibility of inclusion in this discussion. Center Alex Mack (#55) has started all 48 games in his three year career, which is badass. Linebacker D'Qwell Jackson (#52) is overlooked by the other fantastic defenders in the AFC North, but he had 116 solo tackles last year, all with a pectoral problem that sidelined him the past two years. Badass, indeed.
The Browns franchise is littered with tons of badass players, and I could delve into the worthiness of RB Marion Motley (#76/#36), TE Ozzie Newsome (#82), and even QB Otto Graham (#60/#14), but the only *real* badass in Brown history is probably one of the biggest badasses in all of American sports history, not just NFL history. Jim Brown (#32) averaged 5.2 yards per carry, a feat that totally boggles comprehension considering opposing defenses knew he was going to get the ball. And he was also widely considered the best lacrosse player of all time. Brown belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Badass.
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