{"id":653310,"date":"2026-01-04T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653310\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:18:12","slug":"browns-kevin-stefanski-rumors-swirl-trade-still-possible-giants-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653310\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns Kevin Stefanski rumors swirl, trade still possible; Giants fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the eve of what is potentially Stefanski\u2019s last game with the Browns, another report came out that he would be moving on and could be traded, even if unlikely:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cleveland fans have been through a lot of turnover, but this one feels different. There haven\u2019t been reports or a sense that Haslam is angry, disappointed, frustrated, etc with the team\u2019s head coach. Instead, it seems that everyone may agree that time has run its course for Stefanski with the Browns, the head coach may know he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigblueview.com\/new-york-giants-discussion\/150743\/head-coaching-rumors-kevin-stefanski-cleveland-browns-black-monday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at least one job possibility with the Giants<\/a>, and ownership is open to a new voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Trading Stefanski is difficult for a variety of reasons. First and foremost is timing. Teams are required to follow the Rooney Rule in the head coaching searches, so a deal cannot be completed prior to that. Cleveland will not want to delay their process for minimal draft capital. Similarly, why would another team, say New York in this instance, trade anything for a coach that has seemingly checked out of his current team\u2019s future and has a career 44-56 record (going into Week 18)?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Browns are likely to move on from Stefanski after Sunday\u2019s game. When it happens and how it happens will be interesting to watch, but a trade seems highly unlikely. A \u201cmutual parting of ways\u201d seems the likely direction, but will Stefanski, Berry, and Haslam have a press conference together to announce the change? What will be the wording of any kind of press release? How quickly will we have a resolution?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A lot of questions, but the one about Stefanski\u2019s future seems answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the eve of what is potentially Stefanski\u2019s last game with the Browns, another report came out that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,89287,52261,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-653310","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-cleveland-browns-coaching-staff","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-rumors","13":"tag-clevelandbrowns","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115837030317961638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653310","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=653310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}