Shedeur Sanders is the starter, and Mansour said so on a Tuesday in a room that had been waiting since January for him to say something else. Denzel Ward went to Pittsburgh for first-round picks in 2027 and 2028, and the press conference for it was mostly Mansour talking about who Ward is. Jerry Jeudy went to the Giants for a third. DeAndre Hopkins signed. The 53 is set, Maliek Collins and Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah are hurt, and Jacksonville is favored by nine and a half on Sunday because almost nobody watching this thinks it works.
Enter Week 0B →An old-money Ohio shipping family bought the Browns in November, fired the coach and the general manager on the same January morning, ran a full search with a real firm and real candidates — and then gave both jobs to a 28-year-old who had never coached or played. He released Deshaun Watson the next day, said out loud why, and left $117.6 million in dead money on the 2026 cap. What followed: the Brook Park move cancelled, both lines rebuilt inside six weeks, a tackle taken ninth against every public board, a receiver traded up for at ten, and Myles Garrett to the Rams on June 1. Camp is open in Berea with three quarterbacks and no starter named.
Enter Week 0 →Week 0 covers the offseason — the sale, the search, the hire, the release, free agency, the draft and the trade. Week 0B picks up at the end of camp and runs to kickoff: the starter, the two trades, the 53, and Jacksonville. Nothing has been played yet.