{"id":751608,"date":"2026-02-14T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:59:18","slug":"cleveland-browns-news-2-14-the-calm-before-the-offseason-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751608\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns news (2\/14): The calm before the offseason storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to the calm before the NFL offseason kicks into high gear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All across the league, general managers, coaches and scouts are packing their bags and finalizing their travel plans for Indianapolis and the annual NFL Scouting Combine, which takes place February 23 through March 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Free agency will follow a week later, with the \u201clegal tampering period\u201d open from March 9 to March 11, with free agency official opening at 4 p.m. on March 11. Offseason programs can begin as early as April 6, and then the 2026 NFL Draft takes place from April 23 to April 25 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It is going to be a busy time, and we will have everything you need to know as the Browns continue on their 120-day improvement plan to right the ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the meantime, let\u2019s get the weekend off to a proper start with today\u2019s edition of the Saturday Dawg Chow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the calm before the NFL offseason kicks into high gear. All across the league, general managers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,1864,2337,9919,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-751608","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-news","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-daily-dawg-chow","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116069109893558047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751608","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=751608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}