{"id":751685,"date":"2026-02-14T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:45:17","slug":"cleveland-browns-news-2-14-the-calm-before-the-offseason-storm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751685\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns news (2\/14): The calm before the offseason storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Welcome to the calm before the NFL offseason kicks into high gear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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=\"\">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=\"\">In the meantime, let\u2019s get the weekend off to a proper start with today\u2019s edition of the Saturday Dawg Chow.<\/p>\n<p>Dawgs By NatureCleveland BrownsNFL<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47920248\/nfl-wins-grievance-nflpa-regarding-report-cards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL wins grievance against NFLPA regarding report cards (ESPN);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL wins grievance against NFLPA regarding report cards (ESPN)<\/a> \u2013 The NFL won its grievance against the NFL Players Association, effectively banning the union from conducting and publishing future player report cards, according to a memo distributed to all 32 NFL teams and obtained by ESPN on Friday morning.<\/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":751686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[4955,8694,77789,2007,184,86,85,54,2337,257,104184,4131,7,519,2004,4698,216,251,6,996,208,520,252,238,17,582,19563,23813,3452,10141],"class_list":{"0":"post-751685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-a-j-brown","10":"tag-abby-mueller","11":"tag-andrew-berry","12":"tag-baltimore","13":"tag-browns","14":"tag-cleveland","15":"tag-cleveland-browns","16":"tag-clevelandbrowns","17":"tag-dallas-cowboys","18":"tag-daniel-stern","19":"tag-david-njoku","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-giants","22":"tag-indianapolis","23":"tag-isaiah-likely","24":"tag-miami","25":"tag-miami-dolphins","26":"tag-nfl","27":"tag-ohio","28":"tag-patriots","29":"tag-pittsburgh","30":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","31":"tag-seahawks","32":"tag-shedeur-sanders","33":"tag-the-browns","34":"tag-thomas-moore","35":"tag-todd-monken","36":"tag-tua-tagovailoa","37":"tag-wyatt-teller"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116069290769288077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751685","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=751685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}