Sources: The Cleveland Browns are hiring Nick Mansour as head coach and general manager. Mansour, 28, is a football content creator who has never played or coached at any level.

Sources: The #Browns are hiring Nick Mansour as head coach and general manager. He interviewed in Berea on Jan. 12 for a position in the scouting department. He is 28 years old.

going in to interview for the loading dock and coming out with the deed to the building is the single most Ohio outcome available to a human person

Spent an hour on the phone w/ three people who sat in that room on the 12th. Same words from all three. Prepared. Specific. Curious. He asked them questions -- real ones, about their own jobs -- and then he wrote the answers down.

No coaching tree. No mentor. No twenty years on somebody's staff. And they still did it.

Nobody hired me either! I stocked shelves & everyone forgets that part of the story when they tell it back to me! I'm not saying this man is ready, I have no idea IF he is & neither do you! I'm saying ppl have been wrong about who is allowed to do this job before!

He hasn't done a day of it. I did nine years of it to get where I am. Both of those things are just true and I don't have a neat way to put them next to each other.

He walked in for a scouting gig... and walked out with the football operation. That's not a thing that happens. That's not a thing that has EVER happened. I've been covering the Pre-draft cycle for nine years and I have never once typed a sentence like the one I just typed...

bro has not coached one game in his entire life lol

On the experience thing -- and I want to be careful here -- the thing being tested is whether this job is scouting plus management, or whether it's something else entirely that nobody has written down. Cleveland just made that an empirical question. tbh I want to know the answer.

Feb 2021. Twelve minutes on why a guard should not be a top-fifteen pick. Aged like milk. Still up, still timestamped, never touched. Posting the good ones and the bad ones is the entire job of this account and I intend to keep doing both.

the boards are all still up. all of them.

🚨 The #Browns are hiring 28-year-old NFL Draft YouTuber Nick Mansour, who has about 60,000 subscribers, as BOTH head coach AND general manager, per Schefter.

my group chat has not sent a football message in a decade and this is the fourth one tonight. none of them can name a player. all four of them sent the same screenshot

The reason that post is everywhere and ours are not: he put the disqualifying fact inside the news item, in wire register, with nothing attached to it. It reads as a report and lands as a verdict. You cannot do that on purpose.

YES, SIR! Cleveland has hired an algorithm. Not a coach. An ALGORITHM -- a young man whose entire body of work is telling a camera which college players he liked, and being graded on it by nobody. Zero games. Zero. And they handed him the keys.

Cleveland is releasing quarterback Deshaun Watson.

The #Browns are releasing QB Deshaun Watson. Because this is a pre-June 1 release, every remaining dollar of prorated bonus from four restructures accelerates into this league year: $117.6M in dead money against the 2026 cap.

Nick Mansour. Head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Today.

everyone is posting the part with the word in it. this is the forty seconds after it, and it is not about a football player at all

twenty seven years of press conferences in this town where a grown man says the words "we have to be better on third down" and then this kid walks up and just detonates the building

i am from cincinnati and i am legally required to enjoy your suffering and i cannot find the angle on this one. seriously. i have been sitting here

$117.6 MILLION. The single largest dead money charge any team has EVER absorbed in the history of the National Football League. And it happened in week one of a new ownership group. Ask yourself who benefits from a number that big landing before anybody is watching the books.

#Browns Nick Mansour on releasing Deshaun Watson, the $117.6M in dead money and what he told the locker room before he told the room with the cameras in it: --->

More about why Cleveland released Watson in January instead of waiting until March, and what the timing did to the 2026 cap, via @MaryKayCabot:

Football only

He was the best QB on that roster on Tuesday

2 separate conversations and I'm only equipped for 1 of them

How does an organization get all the way to $117.6M of nothing without one person in that building saying the number out loud in a room.

Tomorrow morning on First Take we are getting into Cleveland, and I have plenty to say — not about the young man at that podium, but about the grown men who brought that player to that city and guaranteed every dollar of it. They have been quiet for four years. And make no mistake…..,I'm coming for every one of them. 10am ET.

The Algorithm has now set $117.6 million on fire and has not called one play. Not one. THE MAN HAS NOT COACHED A SINGLE SNAP OF FOOTBALL AND HE HAS ALREADY SPENT MORE THAN MOST FRANCHISES HAVE. Everybody wants to talk about the speech. Nobody wants to talk about the roster he now has to field. Just makes you wonder.

I gave up my seats in October 2022. Section 108, two of them, my whole adult life. I bought two back this afternoon. That is all I came here to say and I am turning replies off after this.

I have never watched a football game and I have now watched this ninety second clip eleven times. There is a man in a sport who said a true thing out loud on the first day it cost him something. I do not know what any of you want from me.

video on cleveland is up. i tried four times to find the funny version and there isnt one so its just me talking for nineteen minutes

Mary Kay Cabot has the full transcript from Berea. Thoughts?

Told by people at four clubs, and two in New York, that no public response to Thursday's availability is coming: a response makes it larger. Privately it runs from irritated to angry. One long-tenured executive: "He has had this job two days and he has already picked a fight with every building above him."

I said what I said yesterday and I am not deleting it. I was wrong about him in one day which is a franchise record for me

The #Browns are terminating the Brook Park project and will remain on the lakefront, sources say. The team notified the league office and the city this morning. Ownership will absorb the sunk cost.

The lakefront site plan the Greysons are keeping, from the north side of the shoreway #Browns

PSL deposits taken for Brook Park will be refunded in full + interest. Timeline is 60 days per the club #Browns

ICYMI: How the #Browns new ownership killed a stadium project eleven months into construction planning, what it cost them to do it, and why they did it in week one: --->

i have never in my life been given something back. i did not know it was on the menu

My husband drove us out to look at that Brook Park field last spring and did not say one word the whole way home. I am going to tell him at dinner and not before. #Browns #Lakefront #ClevelandOhio #Blessed

Browns are trading for Texans offensive tackle Tytus Howard and then signing him to a three-year, $63 million extension, per sources.

From @GMFB: The #Browns have now spent on four offensive linemen and one off-ball linebacker and have not been in on a quarterback. That is a plan, whether or not you like it.

#Browns have agreed to terms with G Elgton Jenkins and G Zion Johnson; LB Quincy Williams is in the building today and more on where the cap sits after the Howard extension: --->

The Best Picture race has a hard cap problem. Four studios eat 80% of the campaign spend every single year, they all whiffed on the same streaming pick in 2021, and now every one of them is carrying void years on a slate nobody watched. You cannot buy your way out of this. You have to draft and develop and nobody wants to hear that.

LIKE if you trust the plan. REPOST if you want a QB. Be honest in the replies, we are all family here. #DawgPound

Let me be clear about something. I have been in this business a long time and I have never asked anybody for permission to speak on what I speak on. Some of yall need to understand the difference between a man giving his OPINION and a man telling you what to think. I will say my peace …..,and then I'm going to say it again on Thursday.

With the ninth pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns selected Arizona State offensive tackle Max Iheanachor.

The #Browns traded up to No. 10 and are taking Texas A&M WR KC Concepcion, sources say. Back-to-back picks for Cleveland. One to watch.

Iheanachor agenda

Iheanachor and Concepcion, quick notes

Iheanachor was 24 on my board. Long, plays with a wide base, has the feet for the left side - the tape is real, the placement is what you are arguing about, not the player.

Concepcion is a problem with the ball in his hands. Makai Lemon is the better route runner today and that is going to follow this pick around for three years whether it should or not.

My final 2026 big board is up. 335 players, ranked, with position tiers and every grade I would defend out loud.

The "ReAcH aT nInE" crowd has been out in force for two hours and not one of them has said a single word about the actual Tape... Look, you can think the placement was wrong. That's fine. That's a real Draft opinion. But if your entire analysis is a Ranking somebody else made... I don't know what to tell you, man.

In talking around with people this week, I (like I think a lot of you?) was mislead by the Pre-draft reporting that had Iheanachor sitting until the twenties. Nobody I spoke to in February had Cleveland anywhere near him. Thanks to the folks who sent me the older stuff and helped clarify it! I stand by my point though... nine was still aggressive.

My #21 Ranked Cleveland #Browns Deep Dive is now live on the Channel... 41 minutes, every pick, the cap situation, and a section on the offensive line that I am Very proud of. Link below...

I went back and graded all of it. Not the mocks -- the mocks are noise and he has said so himself. The grades. Six years of published grades, 811 players, sorted against where they ended up and what they have done. The hit rate on his top fifty is not normal and I would like somebody to explain it to me without using the word luck.

Oct 2024, in a video about somebody else entirely, forty seconds on Concepcion and what he would cost to move up for. Reposting without comment. I also reposted the Malik Willis one in 2022 and I took the same amount of abuse for that.

i had cleveland taking a corner at nine in every single mock i put out so out of respect for my own board there will be no draft recap this year

hope yall understand

the man reached at nine and then traded up to reach again eleven minutes later. this is the most confident anyone from cleveland has ever been about anything

Finally got through the Arizona State stuff for the video this week and I kept rewinding one rep against Utah where the end tries to cross his face and my whole brain just went WAIT HE IS TWENTY, he is absolutely a different athlete than the report on him and I do not think the nine thing is the interesting part at all

Browns are trading defensive end Myles Garrett to the Rams for edge rusher Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick, a 2028 second-round pick and a 2029 third-round pick, per sources.

Myles Garrett's NFL resume, which he brings to Los Angeles:

2x Defensive Player of the Year
4x All-Pro
6x Pro Bowler
136 games
102.5 sacks
23 sacks in 2025, a franchise record
19 forced fumbles

Headlines:
— Why the #Rams moved now on Myles Garrett, and what LA gave up to do it
— Where the #Browns 2027 and 2028 draft capital sits after today
— Jared Verse, 25, and the defense he is walking into in Cleveland

cleveland finally gets a good player and immediately mails him to california like a package we werent home to sign for

I got ripped for four months for calling this man The Algorithm, so now I double down: he has now traded the best defensive player of his generation for a folder of paper that pays out in 2029. THAT IS NOT A PLAN, THAT IS A SPREADSHEET. He will not be here in 2029. Neither will half of you.

Verse is 25 and on a rookie deal through 2028. That is the whole trade. Everything else is people deciding how they feel about a jersey. The path is the path.

Nine years of that man wrecking my Sundays and you people got him for four seasons of homework. I would be devastated if I were you, and I am not, and I am going to enjoy this in a dignified manner for approximately the rest of the decade.

Dad has said the words "fire sale" eleven times at one dinner table. Mom has said "three picks" nine times. I ate in the garage. Youngstown as usual.

What #Browns Travis Switzer wants to see from Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel and Taylen Green in the most important week of camp for all three of them:

Biggest ? in the sport

3 QBs

Zero separation and we are 27 days out

#Browns Nick Mansour acknowledged it would not be fair to name a starter this week given how close all three have been through fifteen practices, and said the reps will stay split into next week: --->

One to watch.

ICYMI: How the #Browns three-way quarterback competition got to the middle of August without a leader, and what Mansour told the room about how it ends: --->

Browns DT Maliek Collins is not expected to be ready for Week 1 and will begin the season on PUP, per HC Nick Mansour. "I had his timeline wrong in June and I told the room that this morning," Mansour told reporters.

Verse + Schwesinger working alone on the far field after the horn. Third straight day #Browns

Everyone keeps telling me Cleveland is "drowning" their young QBs in volume & I have watched the same install clips you have! Here is what I see: 1) one set of rules 2) applied to a lot of pictures 3) which is the OPPOSITE of a lot of rules! That is teaching & it is hard & ppl are grading the menu instead of the kitchen!

Browns camp notes, day 15

Concepcion is the most obviously ready player on that field. He's a dude. I don't see how he doesn't get 90 targets whoever is throwing it.

Iheanachor is losing the rep count against Verse most days, which is what should happen and is not a story.

Hard to have a real takeaway on the quarterbacks and I would be careful with anyone who says otherwise this week.

you cannot run an open quarterback competition in front of forty cameras and then be surprised when nobody wants to be the guy who throws the pick

Grandma asked me who the Browns quarterback is going to be. I said nobody knows. She said "well somebody has to throw it" and went back to her crossword...

(Me, forty minutes later, still explaining the rep split to a woman who is 92 and has never once asked a follow up question)

Ernestine and I watched all 48 minutes last night and I am telling you right now, that is the best two-way wing in that league and it is not particularly close. No AI. All me. Just an old man who still watches every minute.

Two days in Berea. What I keep coming back to isn't the offense.

He LISTENS. To Rutenberg, to Capers, to a 24-year-old quality control guy w/ a laptop. Asks, writes it down, comes back to it Thursday.

Passion. Preparation. Emotional intelligence.

The one thing he does not have is the thing I usually lead with -- having been there and done that. Seven months in, I do not know yet how much that costs. Nobody does.

First open practice I have gone to since 2021. I brought my niece. I did not know any of the names on the backs of the jerseys and I had a perfectly nice afternoon.

Twenty seven days until your ninth overall pick blocks for a quarterback nobody in your own building will name. I am not even enjoying this one as much as I expected to, which is a real disappointment for me personally.

Seven months ago I typed something ugly at three in the afternoon and I have thought about it most weeks since. I still do not know if he can coach. I know he did one thing right on day two and I have not been able to put that down.