Another Embarrassing Figure in Franchise History

When the Browns drafted Kellen Winslow Jr in the first round of the 2004 draft, fans were ecstatic. His father was a Hall of Famer as a TE for the Chargers, and Junior looked as though he had big potential during his college career too.

But in 2005, just one year after he joined the Browns, Winslow committed the mother of all boneheaded moves: an off-field accident doing something stupid that put him on the IR for the season. 

Winslow was riding his motorcycle around a community college parking lot, crashed into a curb, and sustained multiple injuries including a torn ACL (which, to top it off, later developed a staph infection, his first of two of those during his time with the Browns). 

There were other embarrassing incidents involving Winslow and the Browns before they eventually traded him to Tampa Bay in 2009, though to be fair many of those were not entirely his fault. The motorcycle wreck, however, was an embarrassment that Winslow completely brought on himself. 

Perhaps the only thing that would later save Winslow some embarrassment was that a Steelers player one-upped him in the category of "dumb things to do on a motorcycle" when Ben Roethlisberger crashed his bike in downtown Pittsburgh, sans helmet.

By Samantha Bunten

Bleacher Report