Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski confirmed the news that no one wanted to hear on Monday.
Ethan Pocic, the club’s starting center since 2022, will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn Achilles’ tendon in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s loss to the Tennessee Titans.
The injury, which the Browns and their fans are far too familiar with due to quarterback Deshaun Watson suffering one last season against the Baltimore Ravens, generally has a recovery period of at least nine months.
Not only will Pocic miss the final four games of this season, but the injury...
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What does it take to become the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in 2025? Early in the offseason, it seemed like the team had given the early advantage to Kenny Pickett before an injury led to Joe Flacco getting the official starting job. Flacco’s poor play led to his benching and third-round rookie Dillon Gabriel getting the nod.
Gabriel’s concussion led to Shedeur Sanders taking over the offense, but HC Kevin Stefanski continued to speak on a more week-to-week basis regarding Sanders’ holding on to the starting spot, despite a national report noting the season-long plan. Then [Sanders outplayed...
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The Cleveland Browns opened as 7.5-point underdogs on the road against the Chicago Bears ahead of their Week 15 match-up, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. The over/under on the game is 40.5.
The Browns (3-10) are coming off of a 31-29 loss to the Tennessee Titans. Special teams performed poorly again, but the defense joined the party as well, mostly due to having poor run defense. It was actually the offense, particularly the passing game behind Shedeur Sanders, that came alive. Still, it was two failed two-point tries that prevented a win or sending the game to overtime (although that might...
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Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry used an interesting analogy during the preseason to describe the challenges a rookie quarterback faces in moving from college to the NFL.
Berry compared the transition to someone being “fluent in English, and now you have to learn Mandarin,” specifically referencing the steep learning curve Shedeur Sanders would have to overcome before being ready to face NFL defenses.
Sunday’s game against the Tennessee Titans was the third consecutive start for Sanders, and it appears that the grade book will mark him as having passed the English part of the test.
But the more difficult...
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After Week 14 of the 2025 NFL season, the Cleveland Browns are slotted in with the fourth overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft order. The Browns will also acquire another first-round pick from the Jacksonville Jaguars, a pick that is currently slotted late in the opening stanza.
Despite a very good game from QB Shedeur Sanders against the Tennessee Titans in Week 14, Cleveland is still likely to select a quarterback if it has a chance at the top of next year’s NFL draft. Given Sanders’ great stat line this week, completing a Browns 2026 NFL mock draft to...
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Heading into Week 14 of the 2025 NFL season, the matchup between the Cleveland Browns and Tennessee Titans was mostly interesting because of the impact on the 2026 NFL draft order. QB Shedeur Sanders outplaying QB Cam Ward, but the Browns still losing to the Titans made things a little more interesting than just NFL draft talk.
Heading into Week 14, Cleveland was slotted to select fifth overall with their first round pick, while the one they will receive from the Jacksonville Jaguars was slotted at #26. There were a [few other games that could impact where the Browns were...
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The Cleveland Browns need to play the Tennessee Titans, New York Football Giants, Miami Dolphins, and Las Vegas Raiders every game. Even then, we’ve seen that wins don’t always come (see: Week 9 and Week 14).
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Unfortunately, unlike college football, NFL clubs don’t make their own schedule. And mixed into the madness of each season are some very good teams that must be faced. That is the reality of the league.
Now, the Titans are not one of those very good teams. They were ranked before kickoff as the very worst roster in the league...
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There was a moment, right after the win against the Las Vegas Raiders, where the Cleveland Browns could have had an 8% chance of making the NFL playoffs if they had won out to finish the 2025 season with a 9-8 record. After their Week 14 loss to the now two-win Tennessee Titans, the Browns have officially been eliminated from the AFC playoff picture.
With a 3-10 record, despite some very good play from QB Shedeur Sanders this week, Cleveland fans are not shocked by their elimination from the playoffs. Most probably assumed they were eliminated after Week 13, at...
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Life has been tough in 2025 for members of the Cleveland Browns offensive line.
Once the envy of the NFL on an annual basis as one of the league’s best units, this year has seen age and injuries catch up with what was once the cornerstone of the team.
First, it was left tackle Dawand Jones, who was once again lost for the season after suffering a season-ending knee injury in Week 3 against the Green Bay Packers.
Right tackle Jack Conklin went down on the first offensive series of the season with an elbow injury, missed four games before...
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If you are just looking at the box score from Week 14’s matchup between the Cleveland Browns and Tennessee Titans, you would see that rookie QB Cam Ward’s team got the win, and rookie QB Shedeur Sanders put up some gaudy stats. Ward played better than some of the raw data would suggest, and Sanders played well enough, except for a couple of rookie mistakes, to get the victory.
The reality of football is that the nuance makes it the most popular sport in America. Yes, fans love big hits, exciting offense, and all the drama, but discussing the variables...
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Well, it was somewhat of a fun first half for the Cleveland Browns, who were leading the Tennessee Titans 17-14. But then, in the second half, a mix of special teams blunders, turnover on offense, and poor run defense allowed the one-win Titans to pull away against the Browns on their home turf in the fourth quarter. Shedeur Sanders tried to engineer a comeback, and it was entertaining watch him the best game of his young career, but he still came up short as Cleveland failed on multiple two-point tries. On the bright side, with a loss, that’s a plus...
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