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Getty Images The Browns are the latest NFL team to adapt to the new normal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having previously announced that scouts wouldn’t be flying, the Browns today put out a statement saying they’ll tell employees to stay home to fight the spread of the coronavirus...

Getty Images At a time when most people don’t want to travel (and probably shouldn’t), Christian Kirksey is continuing his world tour. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, Kirksey is visiting with the Bills today. He’d be a solid addition to a team that already has Tremaine Edmunds and...

Getty Images Linebacker Christian Kirksey‘s quest for a new team has taken him to Green Bay. Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that Kirksey is visiting with the Packers on Thursday. Kirksey was released by the Browns earlier this week, so he is eligible to sign before the start of the new...

Getty Images The Buccaneers are making a change to the way they’ll be handling business ahead of the draft. Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports that the team has decided to discontinue business-related travel for the team’s coaches, scouts and other staff members immediately. The...

Sports leagues which are in season are being forced to make hard decisions to deal with the coronoavirus outbreak. And the latest will keep the country’s top domestic soccer league off the field. According to soccer writer Grant Wahl of SI.com, MLS is “suspending its season immediately until...

Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II did not raise brain trauma as a potential defense to the various sexual crimes on which he stood trial last year. As a judge considers sentencing on all charges, via a plea deal negotiated on the eve of a retrial on some of the charges, Winslow is advancing...

Getty Images It didn’t take long for Christian Kirksey to find a market, shortly after being released by the Browns. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, Kirksey is visiting the Raiders today. They’re looking to refresh their linebacker group, and just released Tahir Whitehead earlier...

Getty Images Former Browns personnel man Eliot Wolf is now on his second team of the offseason. Per multiple reports, Wolf has joined the Patriots as a consultant in advance of the 2020 NFL Draft. Wolf worked with the Seahawks in a similar consulting role during the Scouting Combine, along...

Getty Images Longtime Cleveland sports reporter Tony Grossi returned to the airwaves Wednesday, after a two-week suspension for calling Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield a “f—ing midget” when he thought he was off the air. Grossi, who has had a contentious relationship with Mayfield for some...

Getty Images The Seahawks are looking for some secondary depth. According to Adam Caplan of SiriusXM NFL Radio, former Browns defensive back T.J. Carrie is planning to visit the Seahawks this week. Carrie spent the last two seasons with the Browns, with 14 starts. He was released in February...

Getty Images The NFL Players Association is electing a new president on Tuesday and soon-to-be Panthers left tackle Russell Okung was the only known candidate for the position coming into the week. Okung now has some company. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that Buccaneers linebacker Sam...

Getty Images Baker Mayfield became the sixth Oklahoma Sooner to win the Heisman Trophy when he took the 2017 vote and he will join the others in having a statue erected in his honor outside the school’s football stadium next month. Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley said that the statue would...

Getty Images The Browns said farewell to linebacker Chistian Kirksey on Tuesday. Kirksey has been released with just over a week to go before the start of the 2020 league year. He’ll be free to sign with any other team once the move is officially processed by the league office. “Christian...

Getty Images Browns center JC Tretter will be taking on another job off the field this season. Tretter has been elected president of the NFL Players Association in a vote of the union’s board of player representatives on Tuesday. He takes over for former NFL offensive tackle Eric Winston, who...

Getty Images The NFL Players Association has in recent weeks plunged into a state of disarray, thanks to the sharp disagreement over the proposed CBA. With new president (and Browns center) JC Tretter now in place, it’s time for the union to become unified again. In 2011, the sharpest...

Getty Images Steve Wilks has been fired twice in the last two years, but he’ll avoid the same fate after the 2020 season comes to an end. Wilks was fired after one year as the Cardinals head coach in 2018 and lost his job as the Browns defensive coordinator after Cleveland decided Freddie...

Getty Images The Jets aren’t the only team pursuing Washington left tackle Trent Williams. It figures that many teams will at least inquire about what it will take in compensation to Williams and compensation to Washington to acquire the seven-time Pro Bowler. The Cardinals and Texans have...

Getty Images Joe Thomas retired after the 2017 season. Three offseasons later, the Browns still are trying to replace him. The connections to Trent Williams and Jason Peters are obvious, and Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com reports the team will explore both as they cast “a wide net in their...

Getty Images The Panthers are going to need plenty of help on the defensive line this offseason, so they’re beginning the process now. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Panthers are bringing former Browns defensive lineman Chris Smith for a visit. Smith played nine games for the Browns...

Getty Images Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham raised some doubts about his future with the team in December when he said that “no one knows what the future holds” amid reports that he was looking for a way out, but revisited the topic a short time later and said that he expects to remain with...