BEREA — They started their journey together not in Cleveland, but Columbus. However, fate brought four former Ohio State Buckeyes a couple of hours north on I-71 to start their quest to reach the NFL together with the Browns. Offensive linemen Dawand Jones and Luke Wypler arrived to the Browns as third-day draft picks, while safeties Ronnie Hickman and Tanner McCalister arrived as undrafted free agents. All of them, however, arrived in Berea with the same pro aspirations. “I think me and Dawand, like the minute I got picked, we texted each other,” Wypler, the sixth-round center, said at rookie minicamp in May. “We’re like, ‘All right, now we’re in it even longer together,’ and it’s just exciting. Rocket (Hickman) and Tanner McCalister, too, just having them there, there’s not a lot of unfamiliar faces coming in day one, so it was pretty cool.” Three-and-a-half months since that first day…
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