Two availabilities in Berea on Monday afternoon, ninety minutes apart. A seventh-year receiver at his locker, and the head coach he was talking about. Both are printed in full and in order, including the parts about the joint practice.
Monday, August 17, 2026 · Cleveland Browns training facility, Berea, Ohio
Q. Coach Jones has had you moving around a lot more this camp — outside, in the slot, some off the ball on third down. How’s all that going?
Jeudy: It’s good. I done played inside before, it ain’t new to me. They want me in there on third down against a bracket, cool, I’ll go in there. Christian got a plan for it and he tells me the plan on Tuesday, not Sunday. He been coaching receivers eleven years. He know what he doing.
Q. Any soreness left from Friday? You were limited late.
Jeudy: Nah. I’m good.
Q. What have you seen out of the two rookie receivers so far?
Jeudy: KC fast. Like, fast fast — he faster than his tape and his tape is fast. And Boston, big body, he catch everything down there in the red zone, he been doing that since the spring, that ain’t new either. Both of them ask me something every single day. That’s what you supposed to do. I was asking Sutton and Tim Patrick stuff my first two years and they told me every time.
Q. Your name has been in trade talk since June. Has anybody in the building come to you about it?
Jeudy: No. And I ain’t ask for nothing, either. Y’all keep writing I want out of here. I never said that. Not one time, not to nobody.
Q. Coach said Thursday the install is ahead of where he expected it to be at this point. Does that match how it feels in the huddle?
Jeudy: The install fine. The install was fine in June.
I’ma be honest with you since y’all standing here. What that man said about Deshaun in January was bullshit. That’s the word for it. I ain’t got a nicer one and I’m not looking for one.
And I’m not talking about them women. I don’t know nothing about none of that, that ain’t mine, I got nothing to say about it and I’m not gon’ have nothing to say about it, so don’t print it like I did. I’m talking about a man who got here on a Tuesday and by Thursday he standing up in front of the whole world telling everybody what Deshaun is. He never met him. Not one time. Never had a conversation with him, never been in a room with him, never asked one person who was in that locker room what they thought about nothing.
I know Deshaun. Two years I dressed four stalls down from that man. He a good person. He was good to me, he was good to the young guys, he was good to the people who work in that building who can’t do a thing for him. That’s what I know. That man know what he read.
And then he walk in our room in February and want everybody to be with him. Be with you off what?
Q. Have you said any of that to him directly?
Jeudy: Twice. On the phone in January, and in June I sat in his office for an hour. He listened. He real good at listening. Nothing changed.
Q. Do you think other guys in there feel the way you do?
Jeudy: I don’t speak for nobody but me. Ask them. Y’all won’t, though.
Q. That’s not really fair. We ask.
Jeudy: Y’all wrote about that building for four years. Four years. Somebody outside with a camera every day of it. Not one time did anybody walk to my locker and ask me what it was like being in there. You asked me about my routes. You asked me about my numbers. One of y’all asked me about a livestream for two weeks straight.
I was twenty-five years old in a building where nothing going on in there was about football, and I still had to go out there and run routes in it every Sunday, and when the numbers came out bad the numbers was mine. Just mine. Nobody wrote that part.
(Cedric Tillman crossed behind him with a helmet in his hand.) Ced. Ced! Tell him what I said Thursday. (Tillman kept walking.) Nah, he heard me.
Twenty-seven and this the fourth offense I learned in four years. Fourth one. And y’all print fifty catches like the fifty catches happened by theyself.
Q. Do you think that’s the reason the production dropped last year?
Jeudy: I think a lot of things is why. I ain’t running from mine either. I dropped two in Cincinnati I been catching since I was nine years old, and that’s on me, and I know it’s on me.
Q. Are you worried about how this comes out for you? Personally?
Jeudy: Worried about what. They spent a one and a two on receivers in April and had my name in the paper by June. That’s the business, I know what the business is, I been in it seven years. Just say it’s the business. Don’t stand there and tell me it’s competition.
I been sitting on this since January. All spring everybody telling me give it time, see how it go, don’t say nothing yet. I seen how it go. It’s the worst hire I ever seen. I been coached by grown men since I was fifteen years old in Deerfield. I don’t think he a real coach. I don’t think he a coach at all.
Q. Worst compared to what?
Jeudy: Compared to all of them.
Q. You’ve got Buffalo here Saturday. What do you want out of a joint practice?
Jeudy: Press. They press everybody, they been pressing everybody for four years. I want the outside release. That’s all I want out of it.
(He answered two more, both about the joint practice, both in under ten words. Then he pulled a shirt over his head, said he had treatment, and went back through the door. The whole thing ran seven minutes and forty seconds and the club’s own feed carried all of it live before anyone thought about it.)
The head coach’s camp availability had been on the schedule since Friday for 3:00 p.m. in the media room, where it has been every day of camp. Nobody moved it and nobody added anything to it. Eleven reporters instead of the usual six, in a room built for a great many more than that.
Q. Have you seen what Jerry said at his locker?
Mansour: I have. Somebody turned a phone around and showed me in the hallway about twenty minutes after it happened, which I appreciated. The other way I find out about things is in the car.
Q. He said what you said about Deshaun Watson in January was — his word — bullshit. Do you want to respond to that?
Mansour: I said what I believe about that on the second day. I said all of it then, on purpose, so that I’d only have to say it one time. None of it has moved. That’s the whole answer and I’m not building anything on top of it.
Q. He also said he doesn’t think you’re a real coach. Is he wrong?
Mansour: I haven’t done this. He’s been in professional locker rooms since he was twenty-one and I’m not going to stand out here and tell a seventh-year player what he’s looking at.
Q. You’re not going to push back on any of it?
Mansour: No, and I’ll say why once so nobody has to keep fishing for it. I don’t take runs at my own players out here. Not when they’re right and not when they’re wrong. Mary Kay, you’ve watched me not do it about a right tackle for two straight weeks.
(Laughter.)
It’s a real question. Keep asking it.
Q. Is there discipline here? A fine?
Mansour: For what, talking to you? You’ve all been standing out here in ninety degrees for eleven days trying to get somebody to say one whole sentence.
(Laughter. A camera operator said something inaudible and Mansour said, “You too, Rich.”)
No. Nothing happens to him.
Q. He said he brought it to you twice and nothing changed.
Mansour: That’s accurate. January on the phone, June across the desk from me for the better part of an hour. Neither of us moved.
This is mine. He has a problem with me, about a thing I did, and it is a fair place to have one. It isn’t Travis’s and it isn’t Christian’s and it is not the locker room’s to carry around in August. He and I are having a conversation and it is not finished.
Q. He made the point that you decided that about a man in that locker room before you had met any of them.
Mansour: That part is true. I’d met four people who worked here when I said it, and everybody in that room found out what their head coach thought about somebody they dressed next to at the same moment a man in Tucson did.
I would do it again on Monday morning. That doesn’t make what he described any less true.
Q. In March, standing right there, you took Dan Orlovsky apart by name for about two minutes over four words he posted about a quarterback competition. You didn’t leave him an inch. Your own receiver just said something considerably worse about you and you won’t give us a syllable. What is the difference?
Mansour: Yeah. Daryl, that’s the third time that’s been put to me since one o’clock and I don’t have anything I’d want to see under my name.
What it feels like from in here is that Dan was talking about Watson and Jerry is talking about me, and I find the second one much easier to be quiet about. That’s a feeling. I can’t tell you it’s a principle. If you write it up as one rule for a man on television and another for a man down the hall, I don’t have the paragraph that beats you.
Q. That isn’t an answer.
Mansour: No. It isn’t.
Q. Is he still your starting X receiver on Saturday?
Mansour: Yes. He’s taken every first-team rep out there this camp and he’ll take them against Buffalo. Nobody in that room has to agree with me about January to play football here.
Q. You haven’t said one word about how he’s playing.
Mansour: I’ll give you something that has nothing to do with any of this. Thursday I had him running a shallow into a coverage that had no business being run into, and he ran it, and then he came and found me at the end of the period and told me exactly why it doesn’t work against that leverage. He was right. We changed it Friday morning.
Q. Does any of this make a trade more likely before the opener?
Mansour: No. People are going to write that it does and I’m telling you flatly that it doesn’t. Whatever we do with any player between now and September is a football decision and it’s mine. If I ever move a man over something he said about me in August, all eleven of you should come at me hard about it.
Q. Buffalo. What are the rules Saturday — are you going live in the red zone?
Mansour: Thud everywhere, both sides. Their staff wanted the same thing, so that took about four minutes. Two red-zone periods and a move-the-ball period at the end with both operations on the clock, which is the part I want to see.
Gates open at nine. Bring water — there’s no shade on that side and last year somebody’s grandmother spent an hour in our training room.
(He asked whether there was anything else, waited through about four seconds of nothing, said thanks, and walked back toward the fieldhouse with Switzer.)
