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.
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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.
In the push and pull over whether NFL fields will be covered with high-quality grass, a global solution is possible, albeit unlikely, through collective bargaining. For now, the decisions will be made one team at a time — especially as new stadiums are built.
The Bills decided to convert from turf to grass in their new stadium. The Chiefs, who are in the process of building a new domed stadium in Kansas, prefer to continue to play on grass, but no decision has been made.
The Browns are also building a covered stadium, in suburban Brook Park. They currently play on grass. Per the team, the Browns will play on artificial turf in the new stadium.
That said, the new stadium will have the ability to accommodate grass, which happens most often when a venue hosts soccer matches. Which means that, in theory, the artificial turf for NFL games could eventually be swapped out for grass.
For now, the plan is artificial turf. Which will tip the current 16-16 balance of teams playing homes games on real grass and fake grass toward turf, 17-15.
Unless, of course, owners of teams that play on turf decide to switch to grass. Starting with the incoming owners of the Seahawks, possibly.
Four years ago, when the Browns, Panthers, Falcons, and Saints entered a four-way competition for quarterback Deshaun Watson, Cleveland was the first team to which Watson said, “No thanks.” A five-year, fully-guaranteed contract quickly changed his mind.
Still, there’s been a lingering perception that Watson didn’t really want to play for the Browns. Before too long, it seemed as if the Browns were counting the days until they could move on from Watson.
Will that change? On Friday, owner Jimmy Haslam kept the door open on Watson returning in 2027. On Saturday, Watson made his feelings for Cleveland clear.
“When I first got here, there was a lot of stuff going on, as the world knows,” Watson told reporters. “But I don’t have any bad feelings toward Cleveland. I love Cleveland. Me and my wife have our house on the east side, so we’re here all the time. We were here this summer. If you ask around, I’m at pretty much all the restaurants, hanging out, so I haven’t had a bad experience outside of different times in the stadium. I don’t know why that narrative is out there that people think that I don’t like Cleveland. My family and I have been enjoying our time here, if the opportunity shows up, we’ll see where it goes.”
The first step will be winning the starting job. The second step will be playing well enough to return. And the third step will be fending off any other teams that may want Watson, if he re-establishes himself as a high-level NFL starter.
Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson said on Saturday that his performance in training camp thus far has “been decent” and that he has his eyes on the next steps in his push to win the starting job in Cleveland.
The team will hold its first practice in pads on Monday and that will bring Watson closer to being in a game for the first time since tearing his Achilles midway through the 2024 season. Watson tore the Achilles again while rehabbing and he told reporters that he’s eager for a chance to show how far he’s come when the team starts playing preseason games.
“I’m looking forward to it,” Watson said, via a transcript from the team. “I haven’t played football in a long time, so for me, it doesn’t matter how long I play or how many games I play, I just want to play football. A lot of people wrote me off and said I wouldn’t be playing football again after two Achilles injuries. I’m proving that wrong and proving myself right. It’s a great opportunity for me to get out there and showcase what I can do.”
Watson said he has no idea when head coach Todd Monken will make a call about who starts in Week 1 between him and Shedeur Sanders, which could make their preseason results a major factor in how things play out in Cleveland.
