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Getty Images Tyrod Taylor has started 46 career games, all in the past four years. But Chargers starting quarterback Philip Rivers has the longest active streak of consecutive starts for a quarterback at 208, tying him for third in NFL history with Peyton Manning. So barring the unexpected...

Getty Images When the Browns signed Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi earlier this offseason, the notable thing about his bio was that he went to something called Phoenix College and had never been in a pro camp. But the way he got into Browns camp is a remarkable story, one of perseverance and...

Getty Images The Saints have added another running back to the offseason mix. Former Browns and 49ers running back Matt Dayes has joined the Saints, per a league source. A seventh-round pick of the Browns in 2017, Dayes appeared in 16 games as a rookie, returning 18 kickoffs and adding five...

Getty Images Free agent defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, who took his first visit to Cleveland, said he has one priority in his search for a new team after nine years in Tampa Bay. “I want to win,” McCoy said, via Josina Anderson of ESPN. “I’m not worried about where I’m living. Wherever I got...

The Browns have all seven of this year’s draft class under contract. Linebacker Sione Takitaki was the last unsigned pick, but the team announced on Friday that the third-round pick has agreed to his deal. It’s a four-year contract for Takitaki. Takitaki comes to Cleveland after leading BYU...

The Browns are less than 17 months removed from an 0-16 finish. But times have changed dramatically in Cleveland, starting with the arrival of quarterback Baker Mayfield. Last season’s spike to 7-8-1, fueled by the early-season firing of coach Hue Jackson and the emergence of Mayfield, has...

Getty Images In honor (there’s no honor in it, I suppose) of the Lions going 10,000 days (now 10,001) without winning a playoff game, Friday’s PFT Live had a draft in honor (again, no honor in it) of the NFL’s fan bases that most deserve a playoff win. Simms and I picked three teams each. He...

Getty Images The Steelers spent some time this week talking about the improved atmosphere around the team after things got a bit toxic during the messy end to the 2018 season, but it will take some time to see if that translates to wins on the field. Until it does, the Steelers are likely to...

Getty Images Defensive tackle Gerald McCoy has wrapped up his first visit with a team since being released by the Buccaneers. McCoy was in Cleveland to meet with the Browns on Friday and Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com reports that the visit has come to an end. Cabot adds that talks about a...

Getty Images The 2021 NFL draft will take place in Cleveland, and the 2023 draft will be in Kansas City. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the two future host cities today at the league meeting. “It’s a big, big deal to our area,” Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said. Kansas City has been...

Getty Images Gerald McCoy said good-bye to the Buccaneers in an Instagram video Wednesday. He vowed to “retire as a Buc.” But retirement isn’t on the horizon for the 31-year-old defensive tackle. McCoy now finds himself a free agent with a chance to choose his next destination. The Patriots...

It looks like Odell Beckham Jr. is going to show up for Browns events early, and not so often. According to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Beckham’s only day of attendance for the voluntary OTAs was last week, as he’s been at that one day of the five held so far. But he’s one...

Odell Beckham is not taking part in the voluntary organized team activities the Browns are holding right now and Jarvis Landry has been sitting out of practices with an injury, which leaves offensive coordinator Todd Monken without two key players as he works to install this year’s offense...

Browns cornerback Denzel Ward made the Pro Bowl as a rookie last season, but he suffered two concussions late in the year that had him thinking about changing the way he plays. Ward says he’s putting more thought into hitting with his shoulders, not his helmet, to protect himself. “The first...

Browns running back Kareem Hunt was baptized at a church in the Cleveland area on Sunday and he had a couple of people from the team in the crowd to watch the event. General Manager John Dorsey and head coach Freddie Kitchens were at the church and Kitchens said on Monday that Hunt was...

The Browns still are formulating plans on how to use Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. With Hunt suspended the first eight games, the Browns have plenty of time to formalize something. “From hearing y’all talk we don’t have enough balls, right?’’ Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said, via Mary Kay Cabot...

Getty Images The Gerald McCoy era in Tampa Bay is coming to an end. The Buccaneers have informed McCoy that they’re releasing him, Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports. Although McCoy has been a six-time Pro Bowler and three-time first-team All-Pro in Tampa, the move comes as no...

Getty Images The Buccaneers didn’t want to pay veteran defensive tackle Gerald McCoy $13 million in 2019. More importantly, no one else wanted to trade for McCoy’s contract. And that’s often the impetus for a trade. Yes, the new team wants the player. But the new team also prefers to surrender...

Cornerback Greedy Williams made a big prediction for how far the Browns will go this season after being selected in the second round of the draft. Williams said the team was headed to the Super Bowl and he now has a contract that will enable him to join them for the ride. The Browns announced...