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Jarvis Landry: Cleveland Browns receivers have 'endless' potential

Jarvis Landry believes the Cleveland Browns' receivers have "endless" potential.

BEREA, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns veteran Josh Gordon was not the only one to speak on the potential of the wide receivers on the roster prior to Tuesday’s practice during the three-day mandatory minicamp session at team headquarters.

Although Jarvis Landry has been with the team for only three months, like Gordon, he is confident the Browns receivers can be among the elite in the National Football League.

“He ain’t lying,” Landry said of Gordon saying the Browns already have the league’s best receivers.

“We are just really showing a lot of flashes. I think the capability of what we all can do is endless. We can only, obviously, beat ourselves at this point.”

Since joining the Browns through a second-round pick in the 2012 NFL Supplemental Draft, Gordon has turned 179 catches into 3,089 yards and 15 touchdowns.

A Pro Bowl player in 2013, Gordon set a franchise record with an NFL-best 1,646 yards on 87 receptions with nine of those catches going for touchdowns after missing the first two games of the season because of a suspension.

Despite Gordon being suspended for 56 career games, 55 of which were NFL bans for positive drug and alcohol tests, including a 44-game stretch that ended with five weeks remaining in the 2017 regular season, his teammates believe he will have quite the impact in 2018.

“He is in a league of his own,” Landry said.

“Having the opportunity to sit with him and learn from him, he is a stand-up guy. To have him for a full season, that is really good, too, not only for myself, but for the organization and for this crew here. I am excited for where it goes next.”

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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon eyes up a pass from the quarterback as he hustles down the field in a drill during Organized Team Activities practice at team headquarters in Berea.

During the first few days of the new league year, the Browns traded two draft picks to the Miami Dolphins in exchange for Landry, and the fifth-year veteran brought with him to Cleveland quite the resume of productivity.

Over his four-year career with the Dolphins, Landry turned 400 catches into 4,038 yards and 22 touchdowns. He averaged 10.1 yards per catch and 63.1 yards per game to go along with 38 catches of at least 20 yards, seven 40-yard plays and 220 first downs.

The 5-foot-11, 208-pound Landry had two 110-catch seasons (2015, 2017) and two 1,100-yard years (2015, 2016) in his time with the Dolphins.

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In 2015, Landry set a then-career high with 110 catches, which he turned into 1,157 yards and four touchdowns and averaged a personal-best 72.3 yards per game. He followed that up with a 94-catch, 1,136-yard, four-touchdown showing in 2016.

Last season, the Metairie, Louisiana native and Louisiana State product caught a career-high 112 passes for 987 yards and a personal-best nine touchdown receptions.

“I feel like I am finding myself here, especially inside of the offense with the guys -- J.G. and all of the other receivers,” Landry said. “I think it has allowed me to be comfortable.

“I think (offensive coordinator) Todd (Haley) does a great job of just getting playmakers the ball. Whether it is in space, whether it is a gadget here or a gadget there, I am confident enough to know that he is going to spray the ball around and put the ball into guys’ hands that give us the highest chance of winning.”

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