{"id":66072,"date":"2025-05-20T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/66072\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:07:10","slug":"packer-legend-charles-woodson-buys-0-1-stake-in-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/66072\/","title":{"rendered":"Packer Legend Charles Woodson Buys 0.1% Stake in Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Woodson was one of the most impactful free agent signings in Green Bay Packers history and also made quite the impact with the Oakland Raiders throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Wolverine alum grew up in Ohio and has been approved as a limited partner in the Cleveland Browns ownership group as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/charles-woodson-approved-as-browns-limited-partner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ProFootballTalk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/attachment-512-2.jpg\" alt=\"KSOO-AM \/ ESPN Sioux Falls logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An Ohio native and the state\u2019s \u201cMr. Football\u201d in 1994, Woodson is the first minority owner added since Jimmy and Dee Haslam became the team\u2019s controlling owners in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up in Fremont, Ohio, it was a dream come true to play in the National Football League. In my wildest childhood dreams, I never considered the opportunity to become a limited partner of an NFL team, let alone the Cleveland Browns in my home state of Ohio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the transaction being approved, Woodson now owns 0.1 percent of the Browns.<\/p>\n<p>Woodson now joins the ranks of former NFL players to take on an ownership role with a franchise following their career. We recently saw Tom Brady do the same with the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Woodson played in the NFL from 1998-2015, was a 9-time Pro Bowler, and was inducted in Canton, Ohio&#8217;s Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/charles-woodson-approved-as-browns-limited-partner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pro Football Talk &#8211; NBC Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 12 Best Single-Season Rushing Performances in Packers History<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Bert Remien<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Woodson was one of the most impactful free agent signings in Green Bay Packers history and also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1104,7,41,345,2514,2513,4438,6,1666,428,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-66072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-articles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-newsletter","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-overtime","17":"tag-packers","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114542677002865345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66072","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=66072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}