Browns cornerback Denzel Ward thinks he and his teammates can be the NFL’s best this season.<\/p>\n
Ward said that after the Browns’ defense had a down year in 2024, they believe they’re going to be the top defense in football in 2025.<\/p>\n
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“That’s our goal, to be the best defensive in the NFL, and we’re going to get there. We’re going to make it happen,” Ward said.<\/p>\n
And Ward said he believes he can win the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m capable. I\u2019m definitely a Defensive Player of the Year-caliber player,” Ward said. “But I take things a day at a time. Awards and that stuff will come down the road. My focus is just to be the best I can each day.”<\/p>\n
Ward is a four-time Pro Bowler, but he’s never received a single vote for Defensive Player of the Year. That kind of recognition would mean that he, and the Browns, have taken a major step forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browns cornerback Denzel Ward thinks he and his teammates can be the NFL’s best this season. Ward said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28885,7345,7,6,582],"class_list":{"0":"post-230535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-defensive-player-of-the-year-award","9":"tag-denzel-ward","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-the-browns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114904416432865086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}