INDIANAPOLIS — Jordyn Tyson wouldn’t need to hire a real estate agent if he were drafted by the Browns. His brother Jaylon is a guard/forward for the Cavaliers, and the family already has a plan.
“He’ll be buying the house and he’s gonna get the big room because that’s big bro,” Tyson said Friday at the scouting combine. “But, shoot, that’d be a blessing if it happens. And, shoot, I’m cool with whatever if I go there.”
Tyson is a receiver from Arizona State. He’s expected to be drafted in the first round, and the Browns need receivers and have the sixth and 24th picks. They had a meeting this week that included general manager Andrew Berry and coach Todd Monken.
“It was amazing,” Tyson said. “Took a lot away. That was one of my last ones, so I was kind of warmed up.
“It was kind of sitting in the middle room explaining plays and stuff like that. But, yeah, we’re gonna see if they like me or not.”
Tyson had major knee surgery in 2022, a broken collarbone in 2024 and a hamstring injury late this season. He won’t work out at the combine, except for the bench press. In 21 games the last two years, he caught 136 passes for 1,812 yards and 18 touchdowns.
The family is from Texas but would embrace a Cleveland reunion.
“We’d love it,” Tyson said. “But me personally, I feel like he’ll just make me more locked in on a day-to-day basis. Just seeing him, because he’s the reason why I have this work ethic to this day and just the ability to be able to look at him as a pro and see what he does on a day-to-day basis. I feel like it would increase my game even more than he already has.”
Jaylon has emerged this season, his second with the Cavs after being drafted No. 20 out of California. He entered Friday averaging 13.5 points and 5.4 rebounds.
Tyson explained the advice he’s gotten from his older brother.
“Just being a pro, being an everyday guy, making good decisions day-to-day, stuff like that,” he said. “And then just knowing it’s a business at the end of the day. That you gotta earn your keep there and basically gotta prove yourself every day.”
Before the advice came the competition with his two brothers.
“That’s all we do is compete all day long,” Tyson said. “I was the baby too, so they was never taking it easy on me. They was actually making it a little harder. And I had to work two times as hard to win. But just compete all day every day. We’re going to ball, we’ll go do anything, golf, all that.”
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LOVE FOR SHEDEUR
Former coach Kevin Stefanski again tried to silence the speculation he had issues with quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who just completed his rookie year.
“I love Shedeur,” Stefanski said Friday on an episode of “Pardon My Take.” “I loved coaching him, seriously. He’s got the right makeup for this game, he was wired the right way.
“I wish that we won more, obviously, but if you saw how he played down the stretch, I mean, he’s a young player that’s getting better. I’m not coaching him anymore, so I know I have to be careful about talking about other players, but I am rooting for him.”
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Stefanski revealed he was told the Thursday before the finale he’d be fired. The announcement came Jan. 5, the day after the finale.
He was quickly hired as coach of the Falcons.
BAKER BROS
Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield, who was the No. 1 pick of the Browns in 2018, got some love from his soon-to-be peers.
Penn State quarterback and Medina alum Drew Allar was asked what it would mean to be drafted by the Bucs and share a QB room with Mayfield.
“That would be really cool,” he said. “Baker was one of my favorite quarterbacks through his time at college and obviously watching his journey in the NFL and it’s cool to see where he’s at in his career.
“He’s a guy that I try to take some stuff from his game. Obviously we’re a little bit different stature-wise and that sort of thing, but the way he leads his team, the way I can just see everybody cares for him and wants to go out and play with him is something that doesn’t go unseen to me.”
LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier included Mayfield when asked for the top five quarterbacks in the league. He named Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers and Matthew Stafford first.
“This is where it gets dicey. Now I’m going to start getting in trouble,” Nussmeier said. “Baker Mayfield I think was pretty darn good this year. I like watching him a lot. And I’d say last, I’d probably go maybe a Jared Goff in there.”
BAD GRADES
The Browns again fared poorly in the annual players survey conducted by the union. Cleveland ranked 30th of 32 teams in overall grade, matching last year’s ranking.
Despite losing an arbitration ruling that prevented the NFL Players Association from releasing the results following a grievance filed by the league, they were leaked to and released by ESPN.
The organizations are graded in a number of areas. The Browns’ worst grades were in locker room (F), treatment of families (D-minus), team travel (D-minus), special teams coordinator (D), offensive coordinator (D-plus) and food/dining area (D-plus). Stefanski got a C-minus, while general manager Andrew Berry and ownership got C’s.
Stefanski was fired, and special teams coordinator Bubba Ventrone and offensive coordinator Tommy Rees weren’t brought back.
The best grade (A-minus) went to defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, who resigned after he wasn’t hired as coach. The weight room and strength coaches received B-pluses.
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