Cleveland Browns Have 2 All-Pro Players

CLEVELAND — Two Cleveland Browns players have been named All-Pros for the 2018-2019 season. Defensive lineman Myles Garrett and offensive lineman Joel Bitonio both made the Associated Press' All-Pro second team.

This is the first time a Cleveland Browns player has been named All-Pro since 2015, when Joe Thomas earned the honor. In the three seasons since Cleveland had an All-Pro, the team went 4-44, leaving fans wandering in a hinterland of football ineptitude.

That all changed this season. The Browns fell one game short of a winning season, finishing the year 7-8-1, with more wins in a single campaign than the squad managed in three previous years.

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The resurgence came thanks to several key players, including Garrett and Bitonio. Myles finished the year with 13.5 sacks, seventh most in the NFL.

“13.5 is all right,” Garrett said on the Browns' website. “I had a couple of TFLs to go along with it. It is a good year. It Was not great. It was not bad. Right there in the middle.”

Bitonio played every game this year and was a key cog of an offensive line that allowed only five sacks during the second half of the season.

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