{"id":802358,"date":"2026-03-09T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/802358\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:36:18","slug":"nfl-free-agency-browns-rumors-signings-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/802358\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Free Agency: Browns Rumors, Signings, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Free agency starts for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> and the rest of the NFL at 4:00 PM ET on Wednesday, March 11 \u2014 but the real news often breaks when the legal tampering period starts. That period begins Monday at 12:00 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We will have all of the Browns-related news and rumors on free agency here at Dawgs By Nature throughout the day. This post will act as a \u201clive blog\u201d of sorts, with brief but important updates about the latest rumors, signings, or trades involving Cleveland or other NFL teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You should also use the comments section as your free agency open thread! (Newest updates will be at the top of the live blog below.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Browns Free Agency Live Blog &#8211; Day 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">8:22 AM: Which players are set to become free agents on Wednesday from the Browns\u2019 roster?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">OFFENSIVE PLAYERS: RB Jerome Ford, RB Trayveon Williams, WR DeAndre Carter, TE David Njoku, TE Blake Whiteheart, C Ethan Pocic, OG Wyatt Teller, OG Joel Bitonio, OG Tevin Jenkins, OT Jack Conklin, OT Cam Robinson<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: DT Shelby Harris, DE Cameron Thomas, DE Julian Okwara, DE Sam Kamara, LB Devin Bush, LB Mohamoud Diabate, LB Jerome Baker, CB D\u2019Angelo Ross, CB Tre Avery, CB Martin Emerson, CB Sam Webb, S Rayshawn Jenkins<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYERS: P Corey Bojorquez<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You can also see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-roster-players\/119189\/browns-roster-players-under-contract-nfl-free-agency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snapshot of the Browns\u2019 current roster here<\/a> \u2014 meaning players who are currently under contract. Among the list of pending free agents, I\u2019d like to see Bitonio, Harris, Bush, Emerson, and Bojorquez retained. Emerson is an interesting one, given that he had a big injury in a contract year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">8:00 AM: Good morning, Browns fans, and welcome to free agency! Legal negotiations begin at noon today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Browns have a lot of players set to hit the open market and become free agents on Wednesday, but the biggest players they\u2019d like to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-free-agency\/119182\/browns-free-agency-eyeing-re-signing-might-have-backup-option\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bring back are LB Devin Bush<\/a> and OL Joel Bitonio. Will it be for the right price, though?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Today\u2019s updates will be brought to you by a mix of the DBN staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agency starts for the Cleveland Browns and the rest of the NFL at 4:00 PM ET on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,52261,3295,1864,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-802358","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-rumors","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-free-agency","13":"tag-cleveland-browns-news","14":"tag-clevelandbrowns","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116199252632516519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802358","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=802358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}