Just before the Browns started training camp, wide receiver Jerry Jeudy found himself going viral on social media for something he didn’t do.
A video showing Jeudy putting up four fingers was portrayed as him answering a question about who he thinks should be the team’s quarterback by favoring Deshaun Watson, but, as noted at the time, the video was clearly edited and Jeudy responded by writing that he doesn’t “speak on decisions that aren’t mine to make.”
Jeudy addressed the video again at a Thursday press conference and said that whoever made the video edited out a section including his daughter. Jeudy said he held up the four fingers to answer a question during a livestream about how old his daughter is and that the video’s editing “made it into something” it wasn’t.
“I’ve been in the league for seven years. At least five or six of those years, there’s always been a quarterback competition within those years,” Jeudy said. “I think I was mature enough, wise enough to not answer questions like that. For anyone to believe I would answer like that on social media is kinda wild. You gotta understand this is what we in and understand how everybody viewing the quarterback competition in this room, so every little thing’s going to try to turn it into that. . . . I don’t even answer quarterback questions in here, why would I answer quarterback questions on TikTok?”
Jeudy said he spoke to Watson and Shedeur Sanders directly to tell them he wasn’t discussing their competition and that the entire episode reinforced his feeling that “nothing’s real” on social media. There are no shortage of examples inside and outside of football to back up that view and there will inevitably be more of them despite admonitions from Jeudy or anyone else to treat it with skepticism.
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Browns coach Todd Monken originally hoped to name a starting quarterback by the offseason program. That didn’t happen, with the competition continuing into training camp.
Monken finally has revealed his timeline for a decision.
He told Cameron Wolfe of NFL Network that Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson will each start a preseason game. The next week will determine who starts Aug. 15 at Chicago and who starts the Aug. 22 home game against the Bills.
The leader likely starts the final preseason game on Aug. 27 against the Patriots.
Watson has played only 19 games since arriving in Cleveland in 2022. He hasn’t played since October of 2024, twice tearing his Achilles since.
Sanders earned Pro Bowl honors as a rookie despite starting only seven games and completing 56.6 percent of his passes for 1,400 yards, with seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
Before Eagles defensive end A.J. Epenesa landed in Philadelphia, he had a one-year deal worth up to $5 million in place with the Browns. Until he didn’t.
The Browns pulled out of the agreement, due to concerns regarding his physical.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Epenesa didn’t want to say much about the Browns. He made it clear that he’s happy to be with the Eagles.
“Cleveland, you know, it was a weird situation,” Epenesa told reporters. “But I don’t necessarily want to go back and talk on that in just a weird sense but I’ll just leave that in the past and just be happy that I’m not a Brown and that I’m an Eagle.”
Is Epenesa healthy now?
“Very healthy,” he said, “feeling good, and happy to be here.”
His contract with the Eagles pays much less than his contract with the Browns would have entailed — one year, $1.402 million.
A second-round pick in 2020, Epenesa spent his first six seasons with the Bills.
The Browns claimed defensive tackle Coziah Izzard off waivers, the team announced Tuesday.
The Cardinals cut Izzard on Monday.
In a corresponding move, the Browns waived wide receiver Aaron Anderson with an injury designation. Anderson signed with the team as an undrafted free agent on May 19.
Izzard is in his first NFL season out of Penn State. He entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2025, signing with the Chiefs.
Izzard has spent time on the practice squad of the Chiefs and Cardinals.
KC Concepcion landed hard on his right shoulder late in Monday’s practice.
The Browns’ rookie wide receiver seemed fine afterward, and coach Todd Monken confirmed as much Tuesday.
“He’s doing fine,” Monken said, via multiple reports. “He’s still sore.”
Concepcion, though, returned to practice Tuesday.
The Browns drafted Concepcion in the first round out of Texas A&M. He totaled 61 receptions for 919 yards and nine touchdowns and added two punt return touchdowns in his only season with the Aggies.
In his three-year college career, which included two seasons at North Carolina State, Concepcion totaled 2,218 receiving yards, 431 rushing yards and 28 touchdowns from scrimmage.
The Browns added a cornerback to their roster on Tuesday morning.
The team announced the signing of Tyler Hall. Offensive tackle Jack Conley was waived in a corresponding move.
Hall appeared in one game for the Seahawks last season. He spent time on Seattle’s practice squad in each of the last two seasons and previously played for the Raiders, Rams and Falcons. He has 46 tackles, two tackles for loss, a sack and four passes defensed in 32 career games.
Conley spent time with the Patriots and Lions after going undrafted out of Boston College in 2025. He signed with the Browns’ practice squad in December and re-signed in January.
In the Cleveland quarterback competition between Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson, there could be a third candidate creeping up on the outside.
Dillon Gabriel, drafted two rounds before Sanders in 2025, is performing well enough to earn more chances to perform.
“I said it the other day, everybody’s competing, but you’re not guaranteed the same amount of reps,” coach Todd Monken told reporters on Monday. “So it’s up to the player to take advantage and maximize those reps, which I feel like Dillon has done. So we’ll see as we move forward, if that continues, we’ll continue to up his reps. He’s earned that. That’s what every player should expect, right? If they play well, you have to up the reps, or what’s the purpose of playing well?”
The best players play. If neither Sanders nor Watson seize the job and Gabriel continues to do the most with the chances he has, why shouldn’t he get more chances?
In theory, that could mean stealing the job from both of them — if he ends up being the best performer of the bunch.
Gabriel started six games in 2025, replacing Week 1 starter Joe Flacco. After going 1-5 in those games, Gabriel yielded to Sanders.
And so the forgotten man on the depth chart could be forcing the Browns to remember him. And, eventually, to play him.
Browns rookie wide receiver KC Concepcion was injured in the 2-minute drill at the end of Monday’s practice.
He appeared to injure his right shoulder after landing on the turf on a hit by Myles Harden, according to multiple reports. Concepcion stayed on the ground before walking to the sideline with athletic trainers while holding his shoulder.
Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com reports that Concepcion didn’t go inside immediately. He remained on the field after practice and was talking to running backs Duce Staley and others, so it is unclear whether it was merely a scare.
The Browns drafted Concepcion in the first round out of Texas A&M. He totaled 61 receptions for 919 yards and nine touchdowns and added two punt return touchdowns in his only season with the Aggies.
In his three-year college career, which included two seasons at North Carolina State, Concepcion totaled 2,218 receiving yards, 431 rushing yards and 28 touchdowns from scrimmage.
Defensive tackle Travis Bell won a championship in the UFL this year and he will now try to make the Browns.
The team announced Bell’s signing on Monday morning. Running back T.J. Harden was waived in a corresponding move.
Bell had 32 tackles, four tackles for loss, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery for Louisville during the UFL regular season. He added seven tackles and two tackles for loss in the playoffs.
Prior to the UFL move, Bell spent time with several NFL teams after being drafted by the Bears in the seventh round in 2023. He played in two games for the Falcons that season and had two tackles.
At a time when the signs were pointing to a potential return to Cleveland from pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney, he’s instead returning to a different former team.
NFL Network reports that Clowney has agreed to terms with the Texans.
Clowney, who arrived in Houston as the first overall pick in the 2014 draft, spent five years there. He was a Pro Bowler in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
After his fifth season, Clowney was traded to the Seahawks. A year later, Clowney joined the Titans. After two seasons in Cleveland, Clowney’s game of NFL hopscotch continued in Baltimore, Carolina, and Dallas.
He had 8.5 sacks in 13 games (six starts) for the Cowboys in 2025.
Clowney joins a defense that is already chock full of superstars. With Will Anderson Jr. and Danielle Hunter as the starters, Clowney gives them a robust rotation that can wear an offensive line down, and that can wear a quarterback out.
Watch the Texans this year. Their defense will continue to be dominant. And their offense needs to simply be competent to provide enough balance to make it to the AFC Championship for the first time and, in turn, to the Super Bowl for the first time.
