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Getty Images The Browns have waived guard Malcolm Pridgeon. Pridgeon did not play in the 2020 season, choosing to opt-out due to COVID-19 concerns. Originally signed by the Texans as a college free agent following the 2019 draft, he was waived by Houston at the start of the regular season...

Getty Images Marty Schottenheimer, who led NFL teams for 21 seasons and earned 200 regular season wins, has died at the age of 77. Schottenheimer was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2014 and had been ailing for the last several years of his life. As head coach in Cleveland, Kansas City...

Getty Images After going 11-5 and winning a playoff game, the Browns are keeping their 2020 coaching staff together. But one of its members will have a new title for 2021. Cleveland has promoted Ben Bloom to defensive run game coordinator, the team announced on Monday. Bloom joined the...

Getty Images Super Bowl LV has not been in the books for long, but it’s been long enough for sportsbooks to move on to futures betting on Super Bowl LVI. The Buccaneers are not favored to repeat, but they have been installed as one of the favorites to win the NFC. William Hill has the Chiefs...

Getty Images When he was hired a year ago, Kevin Stefanski became the Browns’ seventh coach in nine years, counting interim coach Gregg Williams in 2018. The change in coaches was a good indication of how bad the franchise had been. They had not made the postseason since 2002. They had not had...

Getty Images Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes will face off in Sunday’s Super Bowl to decide the NFL champion for the 2020 season. The champion in merchandising sales already has been declared. The NFLPA released the latest numbers of merchandising sales for NFL players from the period covering...

Getty Images Kevin Stefanski was a contender for the Browns head coaching job in 2019. It went to Freddie Kitchens, who was fired after Cleveland went 6-10. The Browns hired Stefanski last January, ostensibly correcting their mistake. But Stefanski feels he benefited greatly from spending one...

Getty Images Former NFL head coach Marty Schottenheimer, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014, was moved to a hospice facility near his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, his family announced in a statement. Schottenheimer is in stable condition following complications with his disease...

USA TODAY Sports The worst rule in football reared its ugly head in the divisional round of the playoffs, robbing the Browns of possession near the goal line and giving the ball to the Chiefs on their own 20. Will the rule, hiding in plain sight for decades, now change? “I do think the...

Getty Images Long-time NFL safety Mike Adams is returning to the league in a coaching role. According to Adam Hoge of NBC Sports Chicago, the Chicago Bears are set to hire Adams as an assistant defensive backs coach. A two-time Pro Bowl selection, Adams last played in the NFL in 2019 with the...

Getty Images Detroit is adding another voice to its front office. Former Chiefs and Browns General Manager John Dorsey is expected to join the Lions, per multiple reports. According to Albert Breer of SI.com, Dorsey’s title will be senior personnel executive. Dorsey served as Kansas City’s...

Getty Images Charlie Frye is back in the NFL. The former pro quarterback will now be coaching quarterbacks with the Dolphins, reports Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports. Most recently, Frye had served at the offensive coordinator at Central Michigan. A third-round pick of the Browns in 2005, Frye...

Getty Images Perhaps the most controversial play of this year’s playoffs happened when Chiefs safety Daniel Sorensen forced Browns receiver Rashard Higgins to fumble into the end zone with a helmet-to-helmet hit that wasn’t flagged. Sorensen was also not fined for the hit, Tom Pelissero of NFL...

Getty Images Patrick Mahomes‘ mother took issue with the hit that took her son out of last week’s divisional playoff game. But the NFL did not see it the same way. The league did not fine Browns linebacker Mack Wilson for the hit that left the Chiefs quarterback with a concussion, Tom...

Getty Images The Browns are signing receiver Ryan Switzer to a one-year deal, Field Yates of ESPN reports. The Browns added Switzer to their practice squad Oct. 1, but he did not play in a game in 2020. The Cowboys made Switzer a fourth-round choice in 2017. He spent one season in Dallas...

Getty Images Two-time Super Bowl champion Tony Jones has died, the Broncos announced Friday. He was 54. The 13-year NFL veteran spent four seasons with the Broncos, playing offensive tackle from 1997-2000. He served as the team’s right tackle during its first championship season in 1997 and...

Getty Images Former Arizona Cardinals head coach Steve Wilks is back in the coaching ranks after becoming the new defensive coordinator at the University of Missouri. Head coach Eliah Drinkwitz announced the addition of Wilks to his coaching staff on Thursday. Wilks didn’t coach during the...

Getty Images Giants running back Saquon Barkley and Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham each suffered torn ACLs during the regular season and the former teammates have plans to work together as they make their way back to the field. Barkley told Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com that he and Beckham...

Getty Images The Browns made Larry Ogunjobi a third-round choice in 2017. The defensive tackle became a valuable member of the team the past four years. But his future could lie elsewhere. Ogunjobi is scheduled to become a free agent in March, and with depth at the position and a lowered...

Getty Images In his season-ending press conference on Monday, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski said he’d exchanged text messages with Odell Beckham Jr. and was looking forward to having him on the team in 2021. Though some have speculated the Browns’ offense was better off without Beckham...