{"id":835011,"date":"2026-03-26T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/835011\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:10:24","slug":"browns-have-met-with-ohio-state-te-will-kacmarek-ahead-of-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/835011\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns have met with Ohio State TE Will Kacmarek ahead of NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 26, 2026, 8:39 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Another Ohio State Buckeye has visited with the <a href=\"http:\/\/brownswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/browns\/2026\/03\/25\/browns-myles-garrett-trade-wide-open\/89324528007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> ahead of the 2026 NFL draft. It was already reported that wide receiver Carnell Tate met with Cleveland, but he wasn&#8217;t the only Buckeye offensive player to have met with the team. Ohio State&#8217;s backup tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dan_Hope\/status\/2036977596735385961?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">Will Kacmarek has reportedly<\/a> also already met with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" data-autotag=\"9cb205d1-d46a-4c2c-a80a-90061986bc20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Browns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kacmarek wasn&#8217;t much of a receiving threat with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/ohio-state-buckeyes\/3439\/\" data-autotag=\"0570041d-af26-45dc-bbba-3bff6c6603b3\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buckeyes<\/a>, but he is one of the better blocking options at the tight end position in the draft. He has shown flashes of being a decent receiving threat if he got more targets, but that&#8217;s just an underdeveloped part of his game as of now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Browns have already added Jack Stoll as a blocking tight end to go with Harold Fannin Jr., but Kacmarek has more upside as a pass catcher that Stoll just hasn&#8217;t shown in his NFL career. The Browns are spending a lot of resources on <a href=\"http:\/\/brownswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/browns\/2026\/03\/25\/browns-to-host-kc-concepcion-pre-draft-visit\/89322683007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offensive players for their visits<\/a>, expect a good amount of their draft capital to be on that side of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:3|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 26, 2026, 8:39 a.m. ET Another Ohio State Buckeye has visited with the Cleveland Browns ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[95878,86,85,54,2337,7,6,97243,97244,97116,95882,95930,95957,115128,95896,95888,96683,96215,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-835011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbrowns","16":"tag-sstsnbrowns","17":"tag-tag2026-nfl-draft","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","20":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","21":"tag-tagjack-stoll","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-draft","25":"tag-tagohio-state-buckeyes-football","26":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116296117764538360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835011","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=835011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}