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Getty Images Quarterback David Blough saw time for the Browns in Thursday night’s preseason game against the Lions and his stat line wasn’t terribly impressive. Blough completed 11-of-17 passes for 115 yards and threw a pair of interceptions against the backup defenders that Detroit was...

Getty Images The Browns traded for Wyatt Teller not to improve their depth, but, they hope, to improve their starting offensive line. Teller will get a chance to beat out Eric Kush for the right guard job. Kush is “our right guard as we speak,” Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said Friday. Teller...

Getty Images [Editor’s note: We’re keeping track of the moves as AFC teams make them this weekend, as they have to get to their 53-man roster limit by Saturday at 4 p.m. Check back throughout the weekend, as we’ll update throughout.] Buffalo Traded center Russell Bodine to the Patriots for a...

Getty Images The Bills traded offensive guard Wyatt Teller to the Browns, the team announced Thursday. They also sent a seventh-round choice in 2021. In return, Cleveland will send Buffalo fifth- and sixth-round choices in 2020. The Bills made Teller a fifth-round choice in 2018. He started...

Getty Images Browns running back Kareem Hunt‘s eight-game suspension for violating the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy goes into effect on Sunday and the NFL said this week that he won’t be able to visit the team’s facility until it has run its course. Hunt will be spending some of his time away...

Getty Images Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens is in charge of his offense. But he’s going to let offensive coordinator Todd Monken call some plays tonight, and has secretly let him do so throughout the preseason. Via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kitchens said on his radio...

Running back Kareem Hunt will bid farewell to the Browns by 4 p.m. ET Saturday when his eight-game suspension begins. The NFL will not allow him inside the team facility until his punishment ends in early November. “It hurts him not to be around there because if you can be around your...

Getty Images Modern-day football is all about offense. But defense still wins championships, or so they say. Actually, “they” don’t need to say it. New England’s suffocating defense won Super Bowl LIII by holding the Rams to only three points. On Tuesday, “we” drafted the best defenses...

Getty Images The NFL’s most marketable player is old enough to be the father of many of the league’s players. A poll conducted by Sports Business Journal of 40 “marketing/branding execs, sports business professors and both print and on-air football media” resulted in Patriots quarterback Tom...

Getty Images Every year, players with recognizable names become, over the course of the season, household names. This year, which players will make that transformation? That question was the subject of Wednesday’s four-round PFT Live draft. There are many to choose from, as evidence by the...

Getty Images After the NFL suspended running back Kareem Hunt for eight games in March, the Browns said they hoped the league would allow Hunt to come to the team’s facility so they could continue to have contact with him during the ban. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said a short time later...

Getty Images After Thursday night’s preseason finale, Browns running back Kareem Hunt (eight games) and Browns receiver Antonio Callaway (four games) will be suspended by the league. The Browns hope to secure permission to keep both of them around the team during their suspensions. To date...

Getty Images Last year was a tale of two seasons for Titans running back Derrick Henry. The first season was a disappointment as he ran for 273 yards on 84 carries through seven games. The second season saw him score 11 touchdowns over nine games, win AFC offensive player of the month for...

Getty Images Cornerback Jhavonte Dean is making the rounds in the AFC North. Dean was waived by the Browns on Monday and claimed by the Steelers on Tuesday. The team announced that cornerback Brian Allen was waived with an injury designation in a corresponding move. Dean signed with Cleveland...

Getty Images Receiver Jaelen Strong tweeted that the Browns have informed him of his release. “Cleveland, thank you. Always gone have a place in my heart. I gave y’all my All everyday I promise you that. God got me,” Strong wrote. Strong signed with the Browns in February. He made seven...

Getty Images Rarely if ever do we expand the PFT Live draft beyond the world of football. Rarely if ever are we reacting to a story the resonates so loudly beyond the world of football. In the aftermath of Colts quarterback Andrew Luck‘s stunning retirement, Chris Simms and I spent some time...

Getty Images Last year’s rule change governing penalties for players that lower their helmet to initiate contact hasn’t gotten much attention this summer with the adoption of replay review for pass interference calls and non-calls taking over the spotlight, but the people doling out fines in...

Getty Images Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham has only done limited work in practice over the last few weeks due to a hip injury, but he’s starting to do more with the start of the regular season a couple of weeks away. Beckham has consistently downplayed the severity of the injury, but he...

Getty Images Friday night wasn’t the best night for the Browns offense, but there were positives in other areas. One was the work turned in by kicker Austin Seibert. The fifth-round pick was 4-of-4 on field goals a few days after head coach Freddie Kitchens said that the team needed to see...

Getty Images Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield had a less-than-stellar showing on Friday night, in the preseason game that used to be the Week One dress rehearsal but that currently is, well, something. Browns coach Freddie Kitchens would have liked to have seen something more from Mayfield...