The latest Cleveland Browns news and notes from around the NFL in the Sunday Dawg Chow.
The latest Cleveland Browns coverage from Dawgs By Nature, along with additional news from around the NFL, in today’s sweltering edition of the Sunday Dawg Chow.
Dawgs By Nature:
- Browns: Where does Kevin Stefanski rank as an OC? (Thomas Moore) – Taking a look at where PFSN ranks Kevin Stefanski as a play caller among his coaching peers.
- Browns 53-man roster: These 3 longshot players are sleepers to make the initial roster (Curtiss Brown) – The Cleveland Browns roster does not have a lot of space available, especially with the four-man QB competition.
Highlights from last week at DBN:
- Browns Brook Park Stadium takes a huge step toward becoming reality (Jared Mueller)
- Browns: What is the latest on domed stadium project? (Thomas Moore)
- Top 10 list of all-time Cleveland Browns players (Matt Wilson)
- Browns QB competition: Plan B could be their best bet yet (Damon Wolfe)
- The Browns training camp 2025 schedule is out, and it has several changes this year (Chris Pokorny)
- Browns hire 8 new staff, promote 7 others (Jared Mueller)
- Browns release big 2023 free agent signing, saving over $3 million (Matt Wilson and Jared Mueller)
- Kevin Stefanski’s spot in PFF’s 2025 returning HC rankings (Matt Wilson)
- Veteran WR not a fan of cold weather (Thomas Moore)
- 3 surprise veterans the Browns could cut (Damon Wolfe)
- Can AI help the Browns be successful? (Thomas Moore)
- Browns receiver turning the corner, becoming a Pro Bowler again, would be big (Barry Shuck)
- Browns All Quarter Century, plus 1 (since The Return), team (Jared Mueller)
Cleveland Browns:
- After only the Browns called, Diontae Johnson admits he was ‘humbled,’ and that better be true (cleveland.com) – Former Pro Bowl receiver Diontae Johnson finally admitted that he was humbled by the fact that no one but the Cleveland Browns called him in the offseason after four teams showed him the door last season.
- Browns QB competition finds ‘forever home’ on social media, even during offseason break (Beacon Journal) – Joe Flacco remembers what social media was like when he arrived in Baltimore as the Ravens’ first-round pick in 2008.
- Do the Cleveland Browns have enough at wide receiver to go along with Jerry Jeudy? (Orange and Brown Report) – The Cleveland Browns signature move of the offseason of 2024 was trading for wide receiver Jerry Jeudy to add him to the wide receiving corps to go with Amari Cooper and Elijah Moore at the top of the depth chart. However, a year later, Jeudy is the only one of the three still on the roster.
NFL:
- Steelers receivers ready to get their hands dirty (ESPN) – Robert Woods paused as he searched for the right word to describe his fellow Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers. “From top to bottom everybody is kind of grimy,” he said, his voice growing louder to emphasize the carefully selected adjective.
- Now that he has a new contract, will Todd Bowles finally get his due? (Tampa Bay Times) – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach doesn’t provide quips or tantrums, but he’s pretty good at collecting division titles.
- Bengals’ wording in participation contract led to Shemar Stewart skipping OTAs (Cincy Jungle) – Since the Cincinnati Bengals closed their OTAs, we haven’t heard much in terms of their ongoing contract negotiations with rookie defensive end Shemar Stewart. The two sides are still hung up on contract language regarding the voiding of guaranteed money.