The latest Cleveland Browns news and notes from around the NFL in the Saturday Dawg Chow.
The latest news about the Cleveland Browns and the NFL in today’s edition of the Saturday Dawg Chow, where we are still busy cleaning up the last few items from the 2025 NFL Draft.
Cleveland Browns:
- Browns Shedeur Sanders comparison: A look at Brock Purdy’s rookie season (Jared Mueller) – The Cleveland Browns 2025 draft won’t be defined by Shedeur Sanders, but he could define the future.
- One Browns draft selection that no one is talking enough about (Barry Shuck) – Keeping the defense a strong point is a must, but Cleveland’s draft class has just two defenders.
- NFL draft: State of Ohio high schools falling behind many states, like that one up north (Jared Mueller) – The Buckeye state, not the Ohio State Buckeyes, didn’t do so well in the 2025 NFL Draft.
- Browns NFL draft review: Big trade, Mason Graham picked by star player and more (Curtiss Brown) – A week removed from the NFL Draft, reviewing all the Cleveland Browns big decisions and draft class.
- Browns offseason schedule: When Shedeur Sanders, Mason Graham draft class take the field (Jared Mueller) – With the NFL Draft done and NFL free agency slowing down, Cleveland’s schedule takes center stage.
- NFL draft: Browns swing low-risk, high-reward instead of swinging for the fences (Curtiss Brown) – Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel were probably not the plan, but with how the NFL Draft played out, they were a good swing by the Cleveland Browns.
- Details on how Browns Shedeur Sanders’ visit to Cleveland high school happened (Jared Mueller) – Shedeur Sanders is a popular person who will draw eyes no matter what he does.
Cleveland Browns:
- Nick Chubb will likely have to find a new home now that Browns RB Jerome Ford has accepted a paycut (cleveland.com) – Nick Chubb will likely have to find a new home now that fellow running back Jerome Ford has accepted a paycut.
- Inside the Browns decision to draft Shedeur Sanders (ESPN) – Minutes before the 144th overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft is announced Saturday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry FaceTimes Shedeur Sanders — a call that finally ends one of the more surprising draft slides in recent memory.
- Browns 2025 wide receivers: Jerry Jeudy and then plenty of questions remain after draft (Beacon Journal) – There were multiple needs the Cleveland Browns have addressed through either free agency, trades or the draft so far this offseason. However, even with a couple of moves made at the position, there’s one spot on the roster that stands out as still under massive construction.
- The ‘Watson Tariff’ and how it impacted the Browns passing on Travis Hunter and betting on two young QBs (cleveland.com) – The Cleveland Browns entered the 2025 NFL Draft with their first first-round pick since the 2022 Deshaun Watson trade — a rare opportunity to add elite talent on a rookie contract. But when they traded down from the No. 2 spot, passing on Colorado’s two-way sensation Travis Hunter, it revealed a franchise still navigating the consequences of their massive quarterback gamble from a few years ago.
NFL:
- What does the path to starting look like for the NFL’s incoming quarterbacks? (The Ringer) – Cam Ward, Jaxson Dart, Shedeur Sanders, and Co. all have very different roads in front of them in the NFL. Some will obviously get on the field in 2025, but others have trickier situations to navigate.
- For Hunter Renfrow, this second chance is about more than football (panthers.com) – It was well before 8 a.m. when Hunter Renfrow walked into Bank of America Stadium Monday, ready for a next chapter that seemed a little like one of his first ones. So much has changed for him since he went to Clemson as a walk-on in 2014, but the sense of gratitude for a chance to play was familiar.
- What are rookie minicamps in the NFL? How they work and more (ESPN) – There’s nothing quite like an NFL rookie camp, a microcosm of the league’s class system. It’s where highly drafted players, on the verge of mega-million pay days, share a locker room with dozens of hopefuls whose football careers will end as soon as the three-day event concludes. It all unfolds in an environment that screams, “Football 101!”