Browns pick former Baylor WR Gordon

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

The Browns have selected former Baylor wide receiver Josh Gordon in the second round of the NFL’s supplemental draft.

Gordon’s selection, the only pick Thursday, fills a need for the Browns, who must forfeit their second-round pick in the 2013 draft. Gordon was suspended for marijuana as a junior in 2011 at Baylor. He transferred to Utah, but decided not to play.

He caught 42 passes for 714 yards and seven touchdowns in 2010.

The Browns were one of nearly two dozen teams to attend his workout this week. He measured at 6-foot-3, 224 pounds and ran the 40 in 4.52 seconds.

Browns general manager Tom Heckert had targeted wide receiver Kendall Wright, Gordon’s former college teammate, in the draft. But after Wright was taken the team selected quarterback Brandon Weeden, who will now have another target to throw to.