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Getty Images Among the top items on the Browns’ offseason to-do list was to improve their offensive line. Check. Check. And check. They hired one of the league’s best offensive line coaches in Bill Callahan. They signed right tackle Jack Conklin to a three-year, $42 million contract, and they...

Getty Images Commissioner Roger Goodell admitted during Super Bowl week that more needed to be done to create opportunities for minority coach and General Manager candidates. Now, he’s going to do something about it, perhaps including draft incentives for teams. According to Jim Trotter of...

Getty Images Running back Dontrell Hilliard got around to signing his exclusive rights free agent tender on Friday. The Browns tendered Hilliard earlier this year and the NFL’s daily transaction report included word of Hilliard signing on. The move left him tied to the team for the 2020...

Getty Images If the Browns and Seahawks were talking in 2018 about a potential trade that would have sent quarterback Russell Wilson from Seattle to Cleveland, the man who coached the Browns at the time didn’t know anything about it. Which, given the overall dysfunction in Cleveland at the...

Getty Images There will be a transition for Jedrick Wills, after playing right tackle in college. But the Browns have no hesitation about his ability to make the move, and plan to start him at left tackle from Day One. “I’m quite confident he’s capable of being our left tackle,” Browns...

Getty Images The Browns have made an addition to their front office. According to multiple reports, the Browns have hired Kwesi Adofo-Mensah as their new vice president of football operations. Adofo-Mensah comes to Cleveland after a couple of years as the director of football research and...

Getty Images Former Steelers linebacker James Harrison claims that Steelers coach Mike Tomlin gave Harrison “an envelope” after the league imposed a $75,000 fine on Harrison for an illegal hit in 2010 against Browns receiver Mohamed Massaquoi. The Steelers have issued a statement on the matter...

Getty Images On October 17, 2010, the NFL changed. Dramatically. And it happened in roughly 15 minutes of real time, with a trio of devastating, and illegal, hits: Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather on Ravens tight end Todd Heap; Falcons cornerback Dunta Robinson on Eagles receiver DeSean...

Getty Images Team facilities are closed, and the official offseason programs are virtual. That isn’t stopping some players from getting on-field work with teammates, though. Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield has taken the workouts with his receivers into his own hands. He invited teammates to...

Getty Images Last week, Chris Simms unwittingly lit a slow-burning fuse while he and I tried to identify during an installment of PFTOT the universe of NFL players who currently are untradable. Patrick Mahomes? Check. Lamar Jackson? Check. Aaron Donald? Check. Aaron Rodgers, given the...

Chargers.com Now that the Rams finally have unveiled their new uniforms, the seven new Nikefications of the NFL officially have been introduced. So how do the new uniforms rank? The options are the Rams, Patriots, Falcons, Buccaneers, Colts, Chargers, and Browns. In the comments, put them in...

Getty Images Free agent offensive tackle Jason Peters remains unsigned well into the offseason, but if any teams think the 38-year-old Peters is getting too old for the job, he’d like to disabuse them of that notion. Peters won’t turn 40 until after the 2021 season, and he has told friends he...

Getty Images Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski is finally living in Cleveland. Stefanski was hired in January, but he and his wife put off an immediate move of their entire family, which includes three young children. The COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown of the team’s facility contributed to...

Getty Images The Eagles have interest in adding a veteran running back with Jordan Howard having left in free agency. Carlos Hyde remains among the veteran running backs still on the market, and one of the last remaining players on PFT’s original top-100 free agents list. The Eagles are...

Getty Images With the “when” now attached to the “who” and the “where” of the 2020 regular season (and setting aside the “how,” for now), it’s time to explore the potential service of a dish not cold but under the bright lights of an NFL stadium: Revenge. Simms and I drafted the best revenge...

Getty Images The Colts announced the death of longtime defensive line coach John Teerlinck on Sunday night. Teerlinck, who was 69 at the time of his death, finished his time as an NFL assistant by coaching the defensive line in Indianapolis from 2002 to 2012. Teerlinck coached stars like...

Getty Images The Browns waived defensive tackle Brandin Bryant on Friday after making the re-signing of receiver Rashard Higgins official. It was the ninth transaction Bryant has had with the Browns since originally signing with them during training camp last August. He played in four games...

Getty Images Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield hasn’t gotten a chance to work with the team’s new additions in person yet because of the move to a virtual offseason program amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but he likes what he’s seen thus far. Mayfield said that every interaction he’s had with new...

Getty Images The Chiefs are scheduled to open the 2020 NFL season by hosting the Texans on September 10 and it will be a rematch of last season’s divisional round game that ended with the Chiefs winning by 20 points. Oddsmakers like their chances of winning by a comfortable margin again in...

Getty Images DeShone Kizer is currently a man without an NFL country. To continue his football career, Kizer may have to go to a different one. Via 3downnation.com, the Toronto Argonauts have claimed the negotiating rights for the 2017 second-round pick who was cut earlier this week by the...