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Every Browns’ opponent’s schedule release video

Every NFL club has a communications department. They do a wide variety of aspects for the team. They handle media requests and events. They make highlight videos. They handle their team’s social media accounts. And every year, they make a schedule release video. RELATED: ALL THE IMPORTANT DETAILS AFTER SCHEDULE RELEASE Teams now create nifty […]

Browns: Is Harold Fannin Jr. set for a big second year?

A key strategy for building a successful NFL roster is to have a replacement ready a year before you plan to move on from a veteran. That was the idea a year ago when Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry selected tight end Harold Fannin Jr. in the third round of the 2025 NFL Draft. […]

Browns schedule: 1 PM slots abound, best for fans? Players?

With the NFL schedule release each year, one of the biggest questions is how many prime-time games the Cleveland Browns will receive. Historically, when the team is coming off a bad season, most of its games have been scheduled in the 1:00 p.m. EST time slot. This season is no different; the Browns have one primetime game on Thursday Night Football against the […]

Browns Todd Monken’s offense: Data on passing rate is interesting

The 2026 schedule is out. Week 1 betting odds are live. Analysis, including the need to be “Road Warriors” early, is ongoing. Now, we have to wait a little bit to find out what the Cleveland Browns are actually made of. We know that Todd Monken is the team’s 23rd head coach, has a long […]

Saturday Dawg Chow (5/16): ‘My (NFL) kingdom for a QB!’

The Cleveland Browns have received a lot of grief over the years about the state of their quarterback room. That is to be expected when you trot out three, four, and sometimes five starting quarterbacks in a single season. But the reality, as much as people don’t want to acknowledge it, is that the Browns […]

Browns fans should be rooting for these 9 young QBs in 2026

With an improved roster, a difficult road start to the season, a new head coach, and five new starters on the offensive line, the Cleveland Browns 2026 season has a lot of variables. The Browns schedule reveal showed a few games that are now harder because of how things are laid out and a few […]

6 Browns games made easier, harder by how the schedule lines up

The Cleveland Browns 2026 schedule is out, and there is a lot to digest. The Browns have a difficult early schedule based on a large number of road games. If they can stay around .500 going into their bye week, Cleveland could make a push for a playoff spot with a lot of late-season home […]

Browns open as big betting underdogs for Week 1 despite roster improvements

The Cleveland Browns 2026 NFL schedule release was mostly lackluster, but that was not unexpected. The Browns opponents lacked a lot of luster, the team was coming off another losing season, and there are still questions at the quarterback position. Cleveland did get one primetime game, unlike five other teams, with the rest of the […]

Browns preseason schedule: 3 playoff teams, 2 home games

The Cleveland Browns schedule is out, with an interesting Street Fighter theme this year, and the results have a lot to pull apart. We’ve known the opponents for a long time; now we have an idea of how the season will move forward, with some positives and negatives to the setup. Browns fans didn’t get […]

Browns officially release 2026 schedule: All the important details

The NFL officially released the full slate of games for the 2026 season on Thursday, with the season beginning on September 9 in Seattle and ending on February 14, 2027, with Super Bowl LXI in Los Angeles. In between, the Cleveland Browns will face a 17-game schedule that includes: Those are the highlights, so let’s […]

Cleveland Browns 2026 schedule rumor and leaks tracker

The NFL will officially announce the 2026 NFL regular season schedule at 8:00 PM ET on Thursday, May 14. Leading up to that, we will use this as a schedule tracking post for any rumors and leaks that come out ahead of time for your Cleveland Browns. 2026 Browns Schedule Tracker Thursday 7:34 PM: We […]

Browns sign another draft pick, leaving one more to go

The Cleveland Browns signed safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren on Thursday, meaning that nine of their 10 selections in the 2026 NFL Draft are now under contract. The lone unsigned draft pick is wide receiver KC Concepcion, one of the team’s two first-round selections. Cleveland selected McNeil-Warren with the No. 58 overall selection after trading back into […]

Browns fans rooting for as many early home games as possible

The NFL schedule release is set for Thursday evening, with a ton of games leaked already, including the Cleveland Browns two games in New York and Week 1’s opponent. There are a lot of ways to evaluate a schedule, including strength of schedule measurements, travel distance, amount of rest, and more. Whether they matter or […]

Browns’ schedule advantages: Impact or just talk?

When looking at all 32 NFL teams and the distance they must travel for their away games this season, the Cleveland Browns have the second fewest miles traveled of any team. They are not participating in any international games this season and do not have to make any long trips out to the West Coast. […]

2 Predictions for the 2026 Browns Schedule Release

The 2026 NFL Schedule release will happen on Thursday, as all 32 teams will have their 2026 schedules unveiled. Social media teams for all 32 teams will find creative ways to unveil their schedules, and the Cleveland Browns will be no exception. The Browns are projected to have one of the easier strength of schedules […]

Browns schedule: Predicting Cleveland’s 2026 results

As we eagerly await for Thursday, when the Browns’ 2026 NFL schedule is officially unveiled, we want to take a quick look at the Browns’ opponents and try to project how many wins Cleveland can have this season. We need some type of number to use as a baseline, so I’m going off of FanDuel […]

Former Browns QBs to be featured on Netflix series

The Cleveland Browns had one of the … interesting … seasons of quarterback play in 2025.  The team cycled from veteran Joe Flacco as the starter for the first four games to a pair of overmatched and not-ready-for-primetime rookies in Dillon Gabriel (six starts) and Shedeur Sanders (seven starts), with the result being a five-win […]

Browns roster: State of the TE room, starting with Harold Fannin Jr.

After losing 26 games in the past two seasons, there must be a change ahead. And change has happened all over this Cleveland Browns roster this offseason. Newly minted head coach Todd Monken is an offensive guy. Everywhere he has landed, he has transformed the offense into a unit of success and found ways to […]