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Browns make minor roster moves ahead of season finale

The Cleveland Browns are staggering to the finish line of the 2025 regular season, which mercifully comes to a conclusion on Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. While there is not much to be gained for either team by playing the game, outside of defensive end Myles Garrett’s quest to set an NFL record for sacks […]

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What will be the fate of Kevin Stefanski and Andrew Berry come ‘Black Monday’?

The NFL closes out the 2025 regular season this weekend, which means we are just days away from what is commonly referred to as “Black Monday” across the league. That designation refers to the day after the last game when teams decide the time is right to make a change at head coach, general manager, […]

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Browns trades: Revisiting the Greg Newsome, Tyson Campbell deal with Jaguars

Three days after the Cleveland Browns lost their fourth game of the season, 21-17, against the Minnesota Vikings, on October 8, Browns GM Andrew Berry made yet another trade. This one wasn’t expected or predicted. For two seasons, there had been speculation that CB Greg Newsome would be traded. Most media outlets had Newsome being […]

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Browns 2025 season: Least encouraging part of the team, roster

The current Cleveland Browns’ season has tested even the most loyal fans in Northeast Ohio. There were some dynamic performances on the defensive side of the ball, but the dysfunction on offense was really highlighted this season. Whether it was dropped balls from wide receivers or inadequate play from the offensive line, the inability to […]

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Browns, Bengals injuries: 8 ruled out, 5 questionable for Week 18

Sometime on Saturday, both the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals are likely to reveal roster moves, including practice squad elevations for their Week 18 Battle of Ohio on Sunday. Neither team is playing for anything more than pride, except for DE Myles Garrett looking to secure the single-season sack record. A number of players will […]

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Saturday Dawg Chow (1/3): The post-holiday hangover

It is the final weekend of the regular season in the NFL, and while there are some big games on tap, none of them involve the Cleveland Browns. Even so, it is the NFL, so people will be watching. Especially today, when there is not much else going on with the College Football Playoffs taking […]

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Browns vs. Bengals: Week 18 Need to Know

The Cleveland Browns will close the season on Sunday when they take on the Cincinnati Bengals. The Browns avoided their first winless season in the AFC North Division since 2017 with last weekend’s victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. They now need a win on Sunday to avoid being swept by the Bengals for the second […]

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Browns final practice of 2025: 3 starters sit out on a muddy Friday

The end is near for the 2025 Cleveland Browns season, and it looks like it will go out with a whimper. Who knows which players will play on either side of the Battle of Ohio or how motivated two teams that will select in the Top 10 of the 2026 NFL draft will be, but […]

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6 takeaways from Cleveland’s coordinators about the Bengals

The curtain will finally fall on The Cleveland Browns and the Lost Season of 2025 on Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. It was 17 long weeks ago that these two teams opened the season full of hope that this was the year they might be able to present a challenge to the traditional AFC North […]

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Browns offseason: Change in power structure between owner, GM and HC could help

With the potential for changes sweeping through the Cleveland Browns once again this offseason, there are still a lot of questions unanswered around Berea and Cleveland, Ohio. Can GM Andrew Berry really survive because of one very good NFL draft class (that lacks premium/hard-to-find positions) while HC Kevin Stefanski does not, despite being aligned with […]

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Browns defense doesn’t allow a touchdown in Week 17 vs Steelers

The Cleveland Browns’ defense had one of its best games of the season against the Steelers in a 13-6 win, not allowing a touchdown. They allowed 291 yards of offense, but the key stats were these: Pittsburgh was 3-of-15 (20%) on third down and 0-of-3 (0%) on fourth down. Below, we analyze the snap counts […]

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Beware when the winds of change blow through Browns Town

The Cleveland Browns will close out the 2025 regular season this weekend and then will enter another offseason dominated by change. Change is inevitable in the NFL, of course, as players retire, free agents leave and arrive, coaches move on, sometimes by their own choice, sometimes not, and a new crop of rookies come to […]

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Browns Shedeur Sanders ‘making major strides,’ according to former NFL QB

The Cleveland Browns put themselves in an interesting position with the Week 17 win versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Browns no longer have a shot at the first overall pick and can now finish within a six-selection range depending on a variety of outcomes in Week 18. Given the competition, Cleveland is unlikely to be […]

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2026 NFL draft order: Browns certain to be picking in this range

The Cleveland Browns head into Week 18 of the 2025 NFL season with no chance of grabbing the top overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft order but feeling good about their Week 17 win versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. While some fans are frustrated that the Browns won a “meaningless” game last week, beating the […]

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Browns Kevin Stefanski speaks about his future in Cleveland

What can one game do? In the mind of Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanksi, the 13-6 win over division rival Pittsburgh Steelers last weekend just may have swayed the powers-that-be to keep him on for another season. Currently, the Browns are 4-12-0 overall and 1-4-0 in the division. The win was just the second […]

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Browns: Future QB plans continue to be problematic

Winning in the NFL, especially against a division rival, can cover up a lot of issues for a team. Take the Cleveland Browns, for example, who pulled off a somewhat surprising (but not really) victory on Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The win was Cleveland’s sixth in the past seven home games against Pittsburgh, and […]

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2026 Browns mock draft: Sliding down a few spots changes options

The current 2026 NFL draft order has the Cleveland Browns out of position for the top two quarterbacks of this draft cycle. The Browns could use the extra pick they have from the Jacksonville Jaguars to move up a few spots, but that would assume A) they wouldn’t be outbid by a team like the […]

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Should the Browns have tanked the game against the Steelers?

With the team’s 2026 draft position at stake, many Cleveland Browns fans were hoping for a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in a game that holds little significance for this season but could impact the team’s future draft standing. Following the Browns’ win, many players spoke out in support of the team and coaching staff’s […]

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