HBCU Legacy Bowl players to know

HBCU Legacy Bowl Studs #Browns

The HBCU Legacy Bowl kicks off this Saturday at 3:00 P.M., but much like with the Senior Bowl, the practices are much more important than the game itself. We briefly discussed a few HBCU prospects to monitor from the HBCU combine and the Legacy Bowl and their practices give us a much larger taste of the talent.

I appreciate any game that provides a closer look to smaller school guys and there are a few prospects that would look good in Cleveland. Full disclosure, I am not in New Orleans, but I wanted to highlight the three names that have been most highly celebrated for their efforts so far this week. Two of these names are familiar faces, but the third will surprise:

Top five HBCU prospects for the Browns

Talent comes into the NFL from all over. @joshkeatley16 takes a look at five HBCU players coming into the league this year who the Browns could target:

Last Saturday marked the very first Historically Black Colleges and Universities Combine. The NFL has been trying to provide an opportunity for smaller school prospects to gain more exposure and this combine provided a larger stage for some HBCU prospects to shine.

The Cleveland Browns were on-site to evaluate the 39 prospects who competed and although a few intriguing HBCU players were left off the invite list there was still plenty of interesting talent to dive into.

There have been numerous stars who have played at an HBCU with the most notable being Jerry Rice from Mississippi Valley State and maybe Cleveland can snag the next star. Here are five HBCU prospects the Browns need to take a deeper look at.