CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The one good thing about the mountain of failed Browns first-round picks is that they actually were failed picks.

The Browns got them wrong, and good. Once the Browns jettisoned their failures, nobody came back to haunt them.

What Corey Coleman does now in Buffalo really doesn't matter, but given the penchant in Cleveland to bemoan the lost opportunity of every potential Brown who shows a pulse somewhere else, you'd better hope Coleman doesn't turn it around for the Bills.

Taylor Gabriel gained 579 yards for the Atlanta Falcons two years ago when they reached the Super Bowl, and some in Cleveland acted like releasing a guy who would go on to rank 84th in the league in receiving had devastated the franchise.

Gabriel averaged 33 yards per game and and 14.1 yards per catch in Atlanta the last two years playing with Matt Ryan. Coleman averaged 38 yards per game and 12.8 yards per catch playing with DeShone Kizer, Robert Griffin III, Cody Kessler and a rusted JUGS machine.

Gabriel, of course, was undrafted and gained 621 yards with the Browns as a rookie, while Coleman was a first-rounder who gained a frequent visitor punch card at the broken hand clinic, but I'm just sayin.

You hated it when Gabriel was dumped for nothing and helped another team.

Are the Browns sure, positive, had-no-other-choice convinced that Coleman can't be a productive NFL player? I'm not. From an on-field standpoint, the Browns just lived through a season of quarterbacks who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, so they just burnt down part of the barn. No quarterbacks, two broken hands, no offensive coordinator last year, Kenny Britt as your role model - of course Coleman didn't succeed the last two seasons.

If the Browns were so eager to dispatch him, there was obviously more they didn't like. His brother was part of a fight on New Year's 2017 when Coleman was there. He missed curfew with Britt last season and was sent home from a road trip. Trade rumors swirled since John Dorsey was hired as the GM, and Coleman entered camp knowing he had to show something.

You'll hear now from the Sashi Brown was an unmitigated disaster crew, and you should. Trade down from No. 2 in the 2016 draft, when picks 2 through 5 are Pro Bowlers Carson Wentz, Joey Bosa, Ezekiel Elliott and Jalen Ramsey and there's not much to defend when your first-round pick in that same draft turns into some Buffalo late-rounder two years later.

I'm the pro-Sashi Brown guy, and I get it. So I'll fill that role, though that's not the main point I wanted to make. I'll drop a couple thoughts on you.

* Coleman was the first receiver off the board at No. 15 in that draft. Three other receivers went in the first round: Will Fuller (Houston No. 21), Josh Doctson (Washington No. 22) and Laquon Treadwell (Minnesota No. 23).

With no other context, here are the stats for those four first-round receivers: Coleman 56 catches, 718 yards; Fuller, 75 catches, 1,058 yards; Doctson, 37 catches, 568 yards; Treadwell, 21 catches, 215 yards. You spotting any Pro Bowlers there?

You know what the others haven't been? Traded.

* I wish the Browns had drafted Michael Thomas in a 2016 draft with no obvious top receiver. He went in the second round and playing with Drew Brees in New Orleans, he's awesome. Everyone who covered Ohio State knew Thomas would be great, including me, and yes, that means I should be the Browns GM.

* You may have memorized the haul from the Wentz trade by now, and the two Colemans were part of that. First-rounder Corey lost his team and third-rounder Shon lost his job, and you're screaming. So here's a quick reminder that, among the many misses from the picks acquired from all the trading down from Wentz, the Browns still have Denzel Ward, Jabrill Peppers, Derrick Kindred, Spencer Drango and Chad Thomas.

If you're still mad about the Wentz deal, maybe Jimmy Haslam can fire Sashi Brown again.

But it's a time-honored tradition for Browns GMs to clean up the previous guy's mess, and Dorsey, who arrived in Cleveland and said the last regime didn't get real players, likes pointing out how messy it was. So if you want to make Dorsey a hero for unloading Coleman, ask yourself how you'd feel if the Browns had just traded a fifth-round pick for a third-year receiver who had two unlucky injuries and a raft of lousy quarterbacks. Think that would be a smart risk to take?

The pick was made. That can't be undone. But the trade didn't have to be made.

If the Browns are behaving like this is still a rebuild, is a relatively low pick going to help you more than a young receiver that your offensive-minded head coach could still try to nurture? If you're ready to compete now, do you have six receivers better than Coleman, since a pick next year isn't the point?

I was hoping he'd get a third year. Now Browns fans should hope Coleman continues the trends of bad picks who stayed bad.

Joe Haden, the 2010 pick, was the last first-rounder to help the Browns long-term. Since then, the first rounders have done little here or anywhere.

* 2011: Phil Taylor, released after four years, has been bitten by injuries and hasn't played a down since his last Browns season in 2014.

* 2012: Trent Richardson, traded to Indianapolis for a future first-rounder after a season and two games, averaged 34 yards per game and 3.1 yards per carry in Indy and bounced out of the NFL.

* 2012: Brandon Weeden, released after two years, was 1-4 as a starter elsewhere and hasn't thrown an NFL pass since 2015.

* 2013: Barkevious Mingo, traded for a fifth-round pick after three seasons, is on his third team in three years since leaving the Browns. He started one game in New England, six in Indianapolis and signed as a free agent with Seattle, where the Seahawks are hoping to get something out of him as a pass rusher.

* 2014: Justin Gilbert, traded for a sixth-round pick after two seasons, did little in Pittsburgh, then was suspended for a year for violating the NFL substance abuse policy.

* 2014: Johnny Manziel, released after two seasons, just threw four interceptions in a CFL game.

* 2015: Danny Shelton, traded after three seasons for a third-round pick to New England this offseason, might work in with the Patriots first-team defense.

* 2015: Cam Erving, traded to Kansas City after two seasons for a fifth-round pick, started four games last year and looks like a starter again. It sounds like Kansas City is encouraged by what he could be.

* 2016: Coleman.

That's nine first-round picks over six years who are gone. The first six the Browns never regretted losing. Sashi Brown traded Erving, who is turning into a real offensive lineman. Dorsey traded Shelton and Coleman, certain the Browns could live without them.

It's one thing to fail on a pick and move on.

It's another to dump a pick, thinking he's failed, when he just hasn't shown what he can do yet.

If your focus is on Carson Wentz, you might be happily angry and angrily happy to see Coleman go. It's more proof of a failure you'll never forget.

If your focus is on Coleman, you'd better hope he's truly a miss, and not just an unlucky young talent who needed more guidance, the better QB play that was coming in Cleveland and one more year to show what he could be.