{"id":804174,"date":"2026-03-10T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/804174\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:15:22","slug":"cleveland-browns-among-teams-interested-in-linebacker-after-losing-devin-bush-in-first-day-of-free-agency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/804174\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns among teams interested in linebacker after losing Devin Bush in first day of free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/browns-among-teams-interested-lb-after-losing-devin-bush\/d3e117214cd50a9b5fd85b43?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns among teams interested in linebacker after losing Devin Bush in first day of free agency;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cleveland Browns among teams interested in linebacker after losing Devin Bush in first day of free agency&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Browns among teams interested in linebacker after losing Devin Bush in first day of free agency<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Sporting News&quot;}\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Preferred Source by clicking here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cleveland Browns&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Browns<\/a> are expected to be interested in multiple linebackers as they figure out their plans for the position next year.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>One name that could reportedly be in play is Kaden Elliss, a productive defender who has played well throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, Elliss is receiving interest from multiple teams due to his familiarity with a few different coaching staffs across the league, which include Cleveland\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLinebacker Kaden Elliss has fans around the league among the previous staffs he has played for: San Francisco (defensive coordinator Raheem Morris) and Cleveland (defensive coordinator Mike Rutenberg), among others, though Cleveland has interest in re-signing Devin Bush at linebacker,\u201d Fowler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48111448\/nfl-free-agency-news-latest-wrs-rbs-pierce-crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;wrote&quot;}\" class=\"link \">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elliss\u2019 connection to Cleveland\u2019s coaching staff makes him a logical target if the Browns want to go that route.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>However, Fowler also noted that Cleveland had interest in bringing Bush back. After the writing, Bush took a deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chicago Bears&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the Browns losing Bush, Elliss could be the best option to step into a significant role in Cleveland\u2019s defense heading into the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old is coming off a season in which he posted 59 total tackles and 3.5 sacks for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/atlanta-falcons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Falcons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Atlanta Falcons&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Falcons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns among teams interested in linebacker after losing Devin Bush in first day of free agency originally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[254,86,391,85,54,2337,11095,7,6388,11415,6,2663,1161],"class_list":["post-804174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-browns","tag-chicago-bears","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-devin-bush","tag-football","tag-jeremy-fowler","tag-kaden-elliss","tag-nfl","tag-raheem-morris","tag-san-francisco"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116204124984961135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804174","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=804174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}