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Getty Images One of the most successful coaches in college football history and one of the most successful coaches in professional football history were on the same staff in Cleveland in the 1990s, and lessons learned then are still valuable today. Alabama head coach Nick Saban was an...

Getty Images While the trade of Kevin Zeitler to the New York Giants brought back defensive end Olivier Vernon in return, it has also left an opening in the Cleveland Browns offensive line at right guard. Last year’s second-round pick, Austin Corbett, is the obvious choice to pencil in to fill...

Getty Images If he was being judged on his work on the field for Mississippi State alone, defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons ranked among the top prospects in this year’s draft class. Two issues complicate Simmons’ ultimate landing spot in the draft, however. He tore his ACL during a February...

Getty Images Taylor Mays isn’t the only defensive back who may end up signing with the Seahawks. Per a league source, free-agent defensive back Jamar Taylor will be visiting with Seattle, too. A second-round pick in 2013, Taylor has previously played for the Dolphins, Browns, Cardinals, and...

Odell Beckham Jr. arrived with great fanfare (and with an ugly hat on) Monday for the start of the Browns offseason program. Then he left. But Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said he wasn’t worried that his new wide receiver wasn’t going to be an every-day participant in their program which...

Getty Images The Browns reported for the start of their offseason workouts this week and they did so amid growing expectations for their first winning season since 2007. Increased talent on the roster is driving those expectations, but head coach Freddie Kitchens’ messages to the team have...

Getty Images Orson Charles will be back with the Browns in 2019. The Browns announced that Charles re-signed with the team on Wednesday. No terms of the deal were announced. Charles played fullback and tight end for the Browns last season after signing with the team in late July. He played...

Getty Images Steelers cornerback Joe Haden spent the first seven years of his career with the Browns and he isn’t letting the fact that his former team is in the same division stop him from noting the optimism in Cleveland these days. Haden told TMZ.com that he’s happy for the city and that...

Getty Images It didn’t take long for the Browns to find a new home for Emmanuel Ogbah. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the veteran pass-rusher has been traded to the Chiefs. The Chiefs are sending back safety Eric Murray in exchange. Kansas City had a critical need for anyone capable of...

Getty Images The Browns sent defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah to the Chiefs on Monday. He was the 12th inherited player Browns General Manager John Dorsey has traded, according to Field Yates of ESPN. Offensive guard Kevin Zeitler, safety Jabrill Peppers, receiver Josh Gordon, defensive lineman...

Getty Images When Browns running back Duke Johnson didn’t show up to the first day of voluntary offseason work, it naturally fueled the talk that had already begun that he could be traded. It appears a trade is exactly what Johnson wants. Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com reports that Johnson’s...

Getty Images A strong finish to the 2018 season plus the all-in acquisitions of receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and running back Kareem Hunt have saddled the Cleveland Browns with high expectations, for the first time in a very long time. Coach Freddie Kitchens, the man who’ll take the brunt of the...

Baker Mayfield, who spends his offseasons in Los Angeles, began working with Odell Beckham at USC a year ago. He went to dinner with him this offseason. The two never dreamed they would end up on the same team. “I absolutely hoped for that, but I wouldn’t necessarily say that we talked about...

Getty Images When the Browns signed running back Kareem Hunt to join a backfield led by Nick Chubb, General Manager John Dorsey said that the move did not make Duke Johnson “expendable yet” and the phrasing suggested that there would be a point when Johnson is expendable. Even before Hunt’s...

Getty Images New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton thinks NFL teams are making a mistake if they’re only focusing on hiring the next trendy offensive mind as head coach. In an interview with the NFL Network, Payton said he concerned about several aspects of the recent head coach hiring...

Getty Images As the 2018 season ended, some believed that the 49ers would make a run at Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. And indeed they did. Appearing on KNBR (via Matt Barrows of TheAthletic.com), 49ers G.M. John Lynch confirmed that the Giants wanted the second overall pick in the draft...

Getty Images Freddie Kitchens has never been a head coach before. Heck, he wasn’t an offensive coordinator for long. And yes, he knows he was just gifted a talented roster, and high expectations, and will probably play a load of prime-time games for a franchise that hasn’t had a winning season...

Getty Images The NFL is looking into an odd incident that took place surrounding Giants safety Jabrill Peppers in January, when his car was burglarized and a suspect in the burglary was later beaten to death. Peppers, who was traded from the Browns to the Giants this month, had items including...

Getty Images As if the Browns hadn’t given their fans enough to get excited about this offseason, they’re going to look better soon. According to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam said the team would be getting new uniforms in time for the 2020...

Getty Images Oddsmakers have installed the Browns as the favorites in the AFC North in the wake of the trade for wide receiver Odell Beckham and it doesn’t sound like Ravens head coach John Harbaugh would argue with that assessment. During his media session at the league meetings on Tuesday...