{"id":812300,"date":"2026-03-14T18:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/812300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:17:16","slug":"cleveland-browns-fa-grading-the-signing-of-zion-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/812300\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns FA: Grading the signing of Zion Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Browns are getting a former first-round pick out of Boston College who stands at 6-foot-3 and 316 pounds. Johnson is a strong run blocker and a very poor pass protector, so you\u2019re getting a mixed bag with his ability. Johnson was second in the NFL in run block win rate during 2025 with 79.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">On the flip side, Johnson ranked as the fifth-worst guard in pass block win rate at 87.4 percent. For a Browns team that struggled protecting the passer last season, the pass-blocking ability of Johnson is something you hoped was better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Johnson had just four penalties called on him in 2025, which is a strong number since he\u2019s still a young player at 26 years old. Cleveland has Johnson under contract through the 2028 season, in what should be his prime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Good free agent offensive line options are scarce, and the Browns undoubtedly just signed one of the best available. The pass blocking ability is a real worry, but his ability to be a strong run blocker is needed with Quinton Judkins entering Year 2. It\u2019s no secret that new head coach Todd Monken is going to want to pound the rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Browns are getting a former first-round pick out of Boston College who stands at 6-foot-3 and 316&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,3295,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-812300","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-free-agency","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116228905602603582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812300","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=812300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}