The Cleveland Browns have seen defensive greatness for several years now. All-World EDGE rusher Myles Garrett has won two “NFL Defensive Player of the Year” awards, and just last year, first-year linebacker Carson Schwesinger took home the “NFL Rookie Defensive Player of the Year” award.

The franchise has a history of having very good defensive units going all the way back to Paul Brown. During Marty Schottenheimer’s tenure in the late 1980s, Cleveland ranked in the Top-11 all four years on this side of the ball, including being ranked #2 in 1987.

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Defense has...

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Browns fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.

As we continue our Reacts polls leading up to Cleveland Browns training camp, now we focus on the team’s most potent weapon on offense last year: tight end Harold Fannin.

The rookie third-rounder excelled, leading the team with 72 catches for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns. Even though David Njoku missed 5 games during the season, his stats paled in comparison...

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• [Most disappointing Browns free agent...

The Cleveland Browns are once again seeking an answer at the quarterback position, with veteran Deshaun Watson trying to recapture the magic of his previous stint with the Houston Texans and second-year pro Shedeur Sanders trying to overcome a poor rookie season and his fifth-round pick pedigree.

For Sanders, outside of the style versus substance conversation from former teammate Joe Flacco, the 2026 season could set his career path in one of two directions. Either Sanders solidifies himself as at least a capable starter, or he runs the risk of never getting the chance to start again.[ Sanders ‘has progressed...

The Cleveland Browns have often “won the offseason,” as they did again this year, but their moves have rarely led to sustained success. NFL free agency is not for building a roster; instead it is about supplementing what a team has already established. Too often, the Browns have tried to take shortcuts via free agency, forgetting that there is often a reason a player is allowed to enter free agency in the first place.

There are a lot of disappointing moves made in the last 10 years of Cleveland’s free agency; these three stick out as among the worst:

**[Austin...

The Cleveland Browns are about to venture out into an area that just may have never occurred in the history of the NFL. In Week 1, they are starting five new offensive linemen, most likely. Has this ever happened before? Without doing the research, it just seems more likely than not.

All five starting offensive linemen changed from Week 1 of the 2025 season to Week 1 of the 2026?

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There is another streak that ceased this year.

In 2020, ESPN started an annual list of the Top-10 players at their position in...

The Cleveland Browns remade offensive line group has seen an impressive amount of overhaul. At this point, the current starting lineup is expected to include five new starters:

• LT Spencer Fano
• LG Zion Johnson
• C Elgton Jenkins or Parker Brailsford
• RG Teven Jenkins or Elgton Jenkins or KT Leveston or Austin Barber or Dawand Jones or…
• RT Tytus Howard

Quite a lot of change from the last few years when Jedrick Wills/Cam Robinson, Joel Bitonio, Ethan Pocic, Wyatt Teller, and Jack Conklin were the starting group. Bitonio has retired, Wills took a year off from...

The Cleveland Browns roster is full of a lot of young, exciting players for the future. The 2025 NFL draft class saw a number of players produce as rookies, including LB Carson Schwesinger winning Defensive Rookie of the Year, DT Mason Graham being a force in the middle of the defense, and TE Harold Fannin Jr. and RB Quinshon Judkins being the foundation for the offense’s future.

Schwesinger was somewhat of a surprise pick for the Browns given his position and relative unknown status as a prospect. From a walk-on at UCLA to first-team All-American to DROY and [making the...

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While the temperature outside is in the 90s and it feels like 100 degrees or more, the boys of fall are preparing to get started. Cleveland Browns training camp opens with rookies reporting on July 23rd and veterans following a few days later.

We’ve started our training camp previews with the quarterback and running back rooms, as expectations for the season are all over the place with fans and the national media.

This year’s training camp includes joint practices in Berea with the Buffalo Bills, [which could be a key evaluation for the QB competition between Deshaun Watson and **Shedeur...

The Cleveland Browns quarterback room in 2025 was a story even Hollywood’s best writers would have had trouble turning into a believable one.

Starting in the offseason and continuing through training camp, the preseason, and into the fall, fans and media members alike believed at one time or another that:

• Kenny Pickett was actually going to start a regular-season game for the Browns.
• Deshaun Watson would see the field during the regular season despite still recovering from a twice-torn Achilles tendon.
• Joe Flacco could re-create his brief but magical run from 2023.
• Dillon Gabriel was the...

The Cleveland Browns will embark on a new era in 2026 under defensive coordinator Mike Rutenberg.

This will be Rutenberg’s debut season as a defensive coordinator, but he has been coaching defense since 2003 when he was an assistant defensive back coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Rutenberg shares similarities with former defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz in that they both favor using a four-man defensive front as much as possible. But it is Rutenberg’s experience working in the secondary that may be the biggest change, as he favors having five players in the secondary on the field as much as possible....