{"id":812075,"date":"2026-03-14T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/812075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:28:38","slug":"browns-nfl-free-agency-rebuilding-the-great-wall-of-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/812075\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns NFL free agency: Rebuilding the Great Wall of Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a horrible year, it was clear that Andrew Berry and the Cleveland Browns<\/a> needed to overhaul the offensive line in NFL free agency if they wanted to win more games in 2026 than they did last year.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to build an elite offensive line in free agency because elite guys that don’t have some question marks just don’t become available often in a league that just doesn’t have enough good offensive line talent. However, you can raise the floor and get your line around league average, which would be a significant improvement after last year.<\/p>\n

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How the Browns rebuilt their OL in NFL free agency<\/p>\n

Zion Johnson<\/a> is the most notable signing because he’s going to help the team reestablish the run game, and he’s shown steady improvement and has the athleticism and traits to be developed into a great guard. The Browns paid him as if he were someone they thought could become great.<\/p>\n

Tytus Howard and Elgton Jenkins<\/a> are solid veterans who bring a ton of stability and flexibility by playing multiple positions, and they are both improvements over what was run out there last year.<\/p>\n

We talk about all these additions and more in our latest Browns podcast, and you can check that out by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: Browns NFL free agency: Rebuilding the Great Wall of Cleveland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a horrible year, it was clear that Andrew Berry and the Cleveland Browns needed to overhaul the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[2007,86,85,54,2337,15906,7,4609,6,1482,5488,582,764,8402],"class_list":["post-812075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-andrew-berry","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-elgton-jenkins","tag-football","tag-free-agency","tag-nfl","tag-offensive-line","tag-question-marks","tag-the-browns","tag-tytus-howard","tag-zion-johnson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116228240396244325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812075","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=812075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}