Browns tight end Harold Fannin Jr. missed all of the offseason program with an undisclosed injury.
Fannin said Wednesday, via Ashley Bastock of cleveland.com, that he required surgery to repair the groin injury he sustained in Week 17. His rehab lasted 6-8 weeks, with doctors clearing him two weeks ago.
Fannin is full go at training camp.
He reported early to try to catch up on learning Todd Monken’s offense.
In 16 games, with 13 starts, in 2025, Fannin caught 72 passes for 731 yards and six touchdowns. He also scored a rushing touchdown.
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There might be a reunion in order for a veteran edge rusher and a team in the AFC North.
According to Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com, the Browns are “strongly considering” re-signing Jadeveon Clowney.
Clowney is in town to visit with the team on Wednesday.
Clowney, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2014 draft, previously played for Cleveland in 2021 and 2022. He registered 9.0 sacks for the club in 2021. But that number was reduced to 2.0 sacks in 12 games in 2022.
Things ended poorly between Clowney and the organization, as Clowney complained that the Browns were going out of their way to give Myles Garrett favorable matchups to juice his sack totals.
But with the Browns trading Garrett to the Rams, that personal matter is now a non-issue.
Clowney appeared in 13 games with six starts for Dallas last season, finishing with 8.5 sacks, 12 tackles for loss, and 10 quarterback hits.
In his 153 career games for Houston, Seattle, Tennessee, Cleveland, Baltimore, Carolina, and Dallas, Clowney has recorded 66.5 sacks with 120 tackles for loss and 149 QB hits.
The Browns have locked up another member of their secondary.
Safety Grant Delpit has agreed to a three-year extension with Cleveland, according to multiple reports.
The initial numbers indicate Delpit’s contract is worth $48 million with $35 million guaranteed.
Delpit was previously entering the final season of a three-year extension he signed with the club in late 2023.
A second-round pick in 2020, Delpit missed his rookie season due to a torn Achilles suffered at practice in late August. He has since appeared in 78 games with 68 starts for Cleveland, tallying seven career interceptions with 21 passes defensed. He’s also registered 6.5 sacks, 25 tackles for loss, and 17 quarterback hits.
On Tuesday, the Browns also agreed to a two-year extension with cornerback Denzel Ward.
The start of training camp means the Browns’ quarterback competition between Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson is about to heat up.
But things are effectively status quo from the offseason program as practices get underway this week.
“Yeah, nothing’s really changed,” head coach Todd Monken said during his Wednesday press conference. “We anticipate alternating. First of all, all four quarterbacks are going to compete. They all won’t get equal reps. Obviously, we will alternate, just like we did in the spring, Deshaun and Shedeur with the ones.”
Aside from Sanders and Watson, second-year QB Dillon Gabriel and rookie Taylen Green are also on the team’s roster. They may not be at the top of the depth chart right now, as Monken mentioned, he’s expecting them to be a factor.
“Obviously, [if] you don’t have as many opportunities, you’ve got to take advantage of the opportunities you get,” Monken said. “But you never know how it’s going to go at any position. Minor injuries are a part of training camp. So, guys go down, their shoulder’s a little sore and Dillon comes in and plays well — or another position.
“Again, we have to divide the reps up according to the depth chart. In a perfect world in camp, me personally, I would prefer the ones get 50 percent, the twos get 33 percent, and the threes get 17 percent, and somewhere the other guys have got to fill in. Can you always count on that? No. So, the more those guys, you start to see them with the ones, you can kind of anticipate they’re our starters.”
Monken said the Browns don’t have to choose who will be the starter until the beginning of the regular season. He’s planning on playing starters in the preseason, beginning with the Aug. 15 matchup with the Bears.
“We’ve got to see what we’ve got, especially at quarterback,” Monken said.
As for that final choice, Monken noted repeatedly that it will be a performance-dictated conclusion.
“Ultimately, I’m not going to decide who the starter is. They decide by their play. Their play decides who the starter is,” Monken said. “I don’t have any preconceived notions of how they’re played in the past or how they’re going to play. I only can, with my eyes, judge. And guys have got to play well around them. I think we’ve shored up some things up front. We’ve added some weapons on the perimeter, so I think that’s going to help.
“But they’ll decide who plays — I don’t decide who plays, the players decide who plays.”
Browns cornerback Denzel Ward made it clear this offseason that he wanted to stay in Cleveland. Now he and the Browns have agreed to a deal to make that happen.
Ward and the Browns have agreed to a two-year contract extension.
Ward’s agents told reporters that it’s a $62.2 million deal with $52.3 million guaranteed and makes Ward the highest-paid defensive back in the NFL.
The 29-year-old Ward is an Ohio native who was drafted by the Browns with the fourth overall pick in 2018 after starring at Ohio State. He has been one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL and now appears set to play out his prime years in Cleveland.
With the Browns in the midst of a rebuild, they could have considered trading Ward, just as they traded Myles Garrett. But while Garrett wanted out, Ward did not. So Ward remains in Cleveland, and will get paid a lot to do so.
On Sunday, a video emerged that purported to show Browns receiver Jerry Jeudy stating his preference at quarterback. Jeudy has responded to the viral clip.
First, it’s important to watch the video. There’s a skip. After the question appears on the screen regarding his choice at the position, the image jumps. After the edit, Jeudy flashes four fingers, which is being interpreted as Jeudy wanting Deshaun Watson to get the job over Shedeur Sanders.
Here’s what Jeudy had to say, on Twitter: “I don’t speak on decisions that aren’t mine to make. I support my teammates/Brothers, I do my job, and control what I can control. Let’s stop creating narrative that aren’t there for likes and clicks. I bet this won’t go viral because it’s too positive/real for y’all.”
Again, the video isn’t reliable. It skips before Jeudy holds up four fingers. He could have been answering any question. It’s impossible to conclude with any degree of certainty that he was answering the question of which quarterback he prefers.
And he’s right. It’s not his decision to make. Why would he state a preference before training camp even opens? Jeudy needs to be ready to work with, and get targeted by, whoever wins the job.
Browns running back Quinshon Judkins’ rookie season ended with an ugly injury in December, but it won’t affect him in training camp.
Judkins is full-go for camp, seven months after surgery to repair his fractured fibula and dislocated ankle, according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.
That’s no surprise, as Judkins participated in the offseason program, but clearance for full contact practices was the last step.
The Browns took Judkins in the second round of last year’s draft, but he didn’t sign his rookie contract until September as he faced a misdemeanor battery charge that was eventually dismissed. After missing Week One, Judkins started Week Two and started every game until his injury ended his season in Week 16.
Judkins finished his rookie season with 230 carries for 827 yards and seven touchdowns, and he projects to be the Browns’ top running back this season.
The crowd that crows about college football chaos compelling Congressional intervention will love this one, even if it’s not much of a surprise.
Earlier this week, former Texas offensive lineman Cole Hutson secured a temporary restraining order allowing him to return to college football despite entering the draft, not being picked, participating in the Browns’ and Cowboys’ rookie minicamps, and not being signed by either team.
Via Pete Nakos of On3.com, a Texas judge granted the request for extra-extraordinary relief — one that often is presented and decided without the defendant having a chance to be heard. The next step will be a hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction, which would extend the TRO through the resolution of the case.
It’s very hard to secure a TRO. Hutson’s success suggests that he’ll also get a preliminary injunction at the hearing set for August 3.
Hutson’s case follows a recent ruling by an Ohio judge granting a preliminary injunction to 24 athletes based on an age-based eligibility model for a fifth year. Hutson has played four years of college football, appearing in 48 games and making 23 starts.
While Hutson has yet to rejoin a college program, it appears that Texas would be willing to bring him back.
“If it ultimately all goes through, we’re getting a veteran player, right?” Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian said, via Ralph D. Russo of The Athletic. “At the end of the day, there’s nothing like having an experienced player on your team, in your locker room, in the offensive line room. What does the future hold? I don’t know. I haven’t seen Cole. It’s been seven months since the last time we played. So there’s a lot that we have to kind of sort through and unpack. But if we’re fortunate enough to have him back, it’d be great.”
The naysayers will claim that the sky is falling, given that Hutson donned an NFL uniform. But he never signed an NFL contract. He was never paid to play pro football. In the recent past, basketball players who had been drafted by the NBA had been permitted to return to college.
It’s a narrow ruling, applying only to players who fit within the new NCAA eligibility rule. The new standard provides players with five years of eligibility “if they enroll in college no later than the academic year after their 19th birthday.”
Usually, news of a player’s home being put on the market is the spark for speculation that he may be looking for a new city in which to play. For former Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, the “For Sale” sign has come nearly two months after he was traded to the Rams.
Via Kalan Hooks of ESPN, Garrett’s home in Wadsworth, Ohio, is available for $2.1 million.
Sitting on two acres, the house has five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and 4,300 square feet of living space. (There’s no mention of whether it comes with his quarterback graveyard.)
The house was built in 2018, a year after Garrett arrived in Ohio as the first overall pick in the draft.
To get a similar home in L.A., Garrett will probably need to move the decimal point one space to the right.
The Browns have made a roster move with training camp set to begin soon.
Cleveland announced defensive tackle Maliek Collins has been placed on the active/physically unable to perform list.
Collins suffered a season-ending quad injury in Week 13 of last season. He was placed on injured reserve in early December.
The Browns will be able to take Collins off of the PUP list whenever he is medically cleared if he’s healthy during training camp.
Collins signed a two-year deal with Cleveland during the 2025 offseason. In his first year with the club, the veteran defensive tackle tallied 6.5 sacks with seven tackles for loss and 13 quarterback hits in his 12 games.
