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Browns are building at the wide receiver position." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesDawgs EDTThe Cleveland Browns have had their share of dynamic wide receiver groups through the decades. From Paul Warfield and Gary Collins in the 1960s https://www.brownsfanshop.com/Rashard-Higgins-Jersey , to Dave Logan and Reggie Rucker in the late 1970s, on through Webster Slaughter, Reggie Langhorne and Brian Brennan in the late 1980s, the Browns have found a way at times to terrorize opposing defenses through the air.The Browns now have a new duo in town that, if they live up to the hype, could join and possibly even surpass their predecessors in team lore.When general manager John Dorsey opened the new league year with a trade for Odell Beckham Jr. to pair with Jarvis Landry, he created the league’s top duo at the position, according to Gil Brandt, an NFL Media Senior Analyst at NFL.com (and soon-to-be-Pro Football Hall of Famer:Brandt is certainly on to something here - especially if Beckham can stay healthy.If you take away the 2017 season, when Beckham only played four games due to injuries, he has averaged 91 receptions, 1,293 yards and 10 touchdowns a season in his NFL career - and he did that with the decomposing corpse of quarterback Eli Manning throwing him the ball in New York. And while Landry arrived in Cleveland a bit over-hyped because of the whole “400 catches in four years” narrative Joe Thomas Jersey , he is still a solid receiver who has averaged more than 1,000 yards a season over the past five years.Pair those two with a full season of Baker Mayfield at quarterback and it is easy to see how Brandt reached his conclusion. (Although a healthy A.J. Green and Tyler Boyd, who came in at No. 8, may have an argument.)The Browns will not play a game that matters for another five-and-a-half months, but the hype around the team remains at an all-time high. But if Brandt is right, that hype will turn into some exciting reality come the fall. It looks like Odell Beckham Jr. is going to show up for Browns events early, and not so often.According to Mary Kay Cabot of the , Beckham’s only day of attendance for the voluntary OTAs was last week, as he’s been at that one day of the five held so far. But he’s one ahead of running back Duke Johnson, who hasn’t shown for any of them after requesting a trade. Wednesday marked the halfway point, with five of the 10 sessions in the books.Beckham also came for the first day of the voluntary offseason program and then returned to Los Angeles, where he lives in the offseason.The Browns also practiced without defensive ends Myles Garrett and Olivier Vernon, and wide receivers Jarvis Landry and Antonio Callaway Wednesday. They’ve been around most of the time Chris Hubbard Color Rush Jersey , and Landry is nursing a minor injury.The Browns have tried to keep things positive about Beckham’s attendance, with coach Freddie Kitchens saying it was important for Beckham to be mentally ready for the season, and quarterback Baker Mayfield insisting Beckham would be ready when it matters in the fall.“I have never disputed the fact that it is not important for him to be here, but it is also also important for him to be mentally ready to be here,’’ Kitchens said. “I’m not giving him an out by any stretch of imagination, and nobody here knows the conversations that Odell and I have. I’m just saying it is better for him to be here when he can present his best self – emotionally, physically, everything.’’The Browns have a mandatory minicamp June 4-6, and they expect everyone on hand then. That includes Johnson, who the team has steadfastly said they’re not trading.