BEREA, Ohio -- The Cleveland Browns haven't just moved on from the Ray Farmer school of not drafting wide receivers. They peeled out of the parking lot with tires smoking like seniors on their final day of class.

Farmer, the team's former General Manager fired hours after the 2015 season ended, notoriously avoided picking wide receivers during his two drafts. In fact, he picked just one, Vince Mayle, who failed to make the team's roster out of training camp last season.

The current Browns braintrust of Sashi Brown, Paul DePodesta, Andrew Berry and Hue Jackson went the opposite direction, picking four wide receivers and a tight end among their 14 picks, led by the selection Corey Coleman out of Baylor with their first pick, No. 15 overall.

"I think Andrew and I are believers, with Paul and others, that you need playmakers on the roster," Brown said on Saturday night. "So, for us, I think we share a vision of really, really talented at all spots, but certainly we felt like that was an area where we wanted to improve this year, and it so happened that early and then late again there were some wide receivers that were available to us that we liked and did add."

"I said when I got here that I was looking to improve that position," Jackson said. "I wanted to get some bigger targets on our football team, but I'm also very happy with the group we had. But I think you can never have too much talent or competition at that position because I think it helps improve your quarterback position. As I said, the quarterback's the guy that kind of drives the engine here and we're going to do everything that we can to put him in the position to succeed and there's a lot of different ways to do that. The offensive line plays a huge role in that but so does the wide receivers and running backs and tight ends. You have to have targets for him to throw at and we've accomplished that in this draft."

Jackson comes to the Browns from Cincinnati where weapons were everywhere. If it wasn't A.J. Green, it was Marvin Jones or Mohamed Sanu or even Brandon Tate doing damage at the receiver position. Coleman said on Saturday that it meant a lot to him to come to a team that now, based on their draft actions, clearly values his position.

"I am real close to Hue," he said. "We talked before the draft a couple of times. I came on a visit here. He is really smart, really intelligent and I am just really happy to be here. I know that he is going to do something really special for this organization."

Alongside Coleman, the Browns also added Ricardo Louis out of Auburn in the fourth round and UCLA's Jordan Payton and Colorado State's Rashard Higgins in the fifth round.

"I would say with Corey and Ricardo, the first thing that just sort of jumps out is their speed and their ability to generate explosive plays," Berry said. "Really, you can almost group the four into two separate categories. With Rishard and Jordan, quite honestly, they have size and they catch everything in their catching radius to be quite honest. We feel really good about the mix that we added, think they have complementary skills sets and we're excited to see them get out on the field and compete."

Payton, the the 154th overall selection, is familiar with Jackson from when he coached one of his mentors.

"I am very familiar with who he is," Payton said. "He is from L.A. also. He coached one of my biggest mentors and a guy who I really model my game after, T.J. Houshmandzadeh. I am excited."

Payton said he didn't meet Jackson when Jackson coached with the Bengals, but he watched them a lot.

"I didn't get to make it out to any games," he said, "but I obviously watched every game. Chad Johnson was also a huge mentor and very close to my family. We watched the Bengals a lot."

Led by Coleman's 20 touchdowns last season, the four receivers drafted by the Browns combined for 36 touchdowns in 2015. Browns receivers have caught 16 touchdown passes the last two seasons combined.

"I think what's important is you've got to score the ball," Jackson said. "You have to score touchdowns and you have to put yourself in a position to score touchdowns. Schematically, we will be as good as we can be, but at the same, you need to have players that give you the flexibility to do that from a lot of different areas from a lot of different places, whether it is from air or from land. I think we have accomplished that from this draft to go along with the guys we already have here. It is going to give us a chance to put out the best of the best that we have. I think that is what is important."

"We're on the same level," Coleman said of his interactions with Jackson. "We both have the same goal, we're trying to win. He's a great guy, a great coach and he knows what he's doing."

Does that thought of working with Jackson get Coleman excited based on how he's seen him use his receivers?

"It does get me really excited, man."