{"id":88542,"date":"2025-05-29T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/88542\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:42:12","slug":"cleveland-browns-fans-what-was-your-favorite-move-of-the-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/88542\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns fans: What was your favorite move of the offseason?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Browns<\/a>, like every other team in the NFL, have spent the offseason rebuilding<\/a> from last season\u2019s disappointing campaign.<\/p>\n

The Browns used every means available to renovate what was one of the historically worst quarterback rooms in 2024<\/a>. A trade brought Kenny Pickett<\/a> from the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, free agency reunited the team with Joe Flacco<\/a>, and Cleveland double-dipped in the NFL Draft<\/a> with the selections of Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders. <\/p>\n

The wide receiver group saw the additions of DeAndre Carter<\/a> and Diontae Johnson<\/a> in free agency, while the receiving game also got a boost in the draft with the selection of tight end Harold Fannin Jr. And let\u2019s not sleep on a group of undrafted free agents wide receivers<\/a> who will be looking to make their mark this summer.<\/p>\n

General manager Andrew Berry used that same combination of free agency and the draft to add reinforcements for the defensive line in defensive tackles Mason Graham and Ralph Holley<\/a>, and defensive ends Julian Okwara and Joe Tryon-Shoyinka. <\/p>\n

Now that the transactions are starting to dry up and teams are moving closer to the summer break before training camp, Mike Sando at The Athletic took a look at the past few months to determine his favorite offseason move for every team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the case of the Browns, it was a draft-day trade that caught his fancy:<\/p>\n

Adding a 2026 first-round pick from Jacksonville in exchange for dropping from No. 2 to No. 5 in the draft stands out for Cleveland. Though the Browns could regret passing up Travis Hunter, the draft capital could help them land a quarterback in the future, which could be a top priority even after the team used third- and fifth-round picks on the position this year.<\/p>\n

Selecting a favorite offseason is different from looking for the best offseason move. For the Browns, there are a few contenders for the best move, including:<\/p>\n

Agreeing to a contract extension with defensive end Myles Garrett, the game\u2019s best defensive player.
\nAdding a pair of rookie running backs in Quinshon Judkins and Dylan Sampson to collectively fill the void left by Nick Chubb<\/a>.
\nExecuting a plan to address the quarterback situation.<\/p>\n

Some moves that could be classified as favorites include:<\/p>\n

Letting Jameis Winston leave in free agency and signaling that the Deshaun Watson era is over<\/a>.
\nRetaining the general manager\/head coach combination of Berry and Kevin Stefanski, rather than blowing it all up again.
\nResisting the urge to select a quarterback simply because they played at Ohio State<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Those are just a few that come to mind, so let\u2019s hear from you, Browns fans. What was your favorite move, or moves, this offseason? Have your say in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns, like every other team in the NFL, have spent the offseason rebuilding from last season\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,93,85,54,1864,2337,92,45,4279,7,29,3550,94,6,152,782,24,3227,1199,2103],"class_list":{"0":"post-88542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-by","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-news","13":"tag-clevelandbrowns","14":"tag-dawgs","15":"tag-fans","16":"tag-favorite","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-front-page","19":"tag-move","20":"tag-nature","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-of","23":"tag-offseason","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-was","26":"tag-what","27":"tag-your"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114592359738666823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88542","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=88542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}