{"id":23720,"date":"2025-05-04T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/23720\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:14:09","slug":"usc-linebacker-easton-mascarenas-arnold-signs-with-cleveland-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/23720\/","title":{"rendered":"USC linebacker Easton Mascarenas-Arnold signs with Cleveland Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flowing the conclusion of the 2025 NFL draft, numerous USC players have signed with teams as undrafted free agents<\/a>. Earlier this week, linebacker Easton Mascarenas-Arnold became the latest <\/a>Trojan to do so when he inked a deal with the Cleveland Browns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Easton Mascarenas-Arnold was always going to have a tough time getting drafted because of his lack of top-end speed. When evaluating NFL players as physical specimen, having at least one quality which pops off the film is important. Mascarenas-Arnold has a tremendous work ethic and was involved in a lot of plays for USC. He is a smart player who has a knack for being around the ball, and it is widely accepted that coach Matt Entz did a great job with the linebacker room last season before he took over the head coaching job at Fresno State<\/a> and earned a promotion within the industry.<\/p>\n

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However, as well as Mascarenas-Arnold was coached last year at USC, and as hard as he works, the NFL is a vicious, cutthroat business. NFL draft prospects need to be the very best athletic performers with supreme physical profiles. Mascarenas-Arnold doesn’t check enough of those boxes. His intangibles are through the roof, but intangibles can only do so much. Let’s see if EMA can max out enough to get a special teams or backup linebacker job in the pros.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: USC football’s Easton Macarena\u2019s-Arnold inks UDFA deal with Browns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flowing the conclusion of the 2025 NFL draft, numerous USC players have signed with teams as undrafted free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,10849,7,4664,4135,10850,6,9653],"class_list":{"0":"post-23720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-easton-mascarenas-arnold","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-fresno-state","15":"tag-linebacker","16":"tag-mascarenas-arnold","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-usc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114450927900901017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720","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=23720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}