Steelers are trading for Browns cornerback Denzel Ward, per sources. Cleveland receives Pittsburgh's 2027 first-round pick and 2028 first-round pick.

Denzel Ward's NFL resume, which he brings to Pittsburgh:

4x Pro Bowler
1x All-Pro
No. 4 overall pick, 2018
112 games
14 interceptions
103 passes defensed
Cleveland native, St. Edward High School, Ohio State

The #Steelers are sending a 2027 first-round pick and a 2028 first-round pick to the #Browns for CB Denzel Ward, sources say. Ward, 29, signed the largest contract for a defensive back in league history in Cleveland and had made his preference known this offseason.

#Browns have traded CB Denzel Ward to the #Steelers for two future first-round picks, a source tells cleveland.com: --->

How the #Browns got two first-round picks for Denzel Ward from a division rival, what it means for Grant Delpit and Darnell Savage, and why the deal happened in September and not in November:

ICYMI: What the Denzel Ward trade means for a #Browns secondary that now has a converted safety at boundary corner and a converted safety in the slot, six days before Jacksonville: --->

2027 and 2028 firsts. No swaps, no conditions, no player back #Browns

Ward's stall in the CrossCountry Mortgage Campus locker room, cleared out this afternoon #Browns

For what it's worth, Cleveland eats about $19M in acceleration on this and still comes out with two firsts and $16.4M of cash off the 2027 book. The hard part, however, is that they now have four corners on the roster and two of them were safeties in July.

Savage has never played a snap of press man in his career and he is going to play a lot of it on Sunday against a team that runs Brian Thomas Jr. down the sideline nine times a game.

Ward trade quick thoughts

Two unconditional firsts is more than any of us had modeled and I had this at a two and a swap in June. Credit where it's due on the return.

Pittsburgh's corner room was the worst in the division and they knew it in January - this is a team paying retail because they waited.

Hard to say what Cleveland's secondary looks like Sunday until we see the first third down

Good return

Doesn't fix the ? at 14 personnel

Doesn't fix the ? on the right side

From the Browns roster video, uploaded April 11 2024, 14:52 in: "you are not getting out of this without trading a good player to somebody who is close, and the only guys close to you are in your division, so somebody has to be willing to do the thing everybody says you can't do."

people are reposting one clip from 2024 so here is the other fourteen minutes

two firsts

BREAKING: Browns have traded CB Denzel Ward to Pittsburgh for two first-round picks. Cleveland will use the 2027 selection on an offensive tackle who was ranked 24th, and the 2028 selection on an offensive tackle who was ranked 24th. Mansour said both men were his 9th-ranked player on a board he has not published and will not be publishing.

so the browns are good at trades and bad at football and the steelers are good at football and bad at trades and we are bad at both. love the AFC North. best division in football and none of us can play

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN NFL HISTORY A CORNERBACK HAS BEEN TRADED FOR TWO FIRST ROUND PICKS. THE GREYSONS ARE SELLING THE TEAM. THIS IS A TEARDOWN FOR A SALE. WAKE UP

My son is 9 and has a Ward jersey and I told him tonight and he said "is he ok" and I said yes and he said "then it's fine" and went back to his iPad. Anyway that's how you're supposed to do it I guess

HONEST QUESTION DAWG POUND. Do you TRUST the front office after today? LIKE for yes, REPOST for no, REPLY with your Week 1 prediction. Let's get 1,000 answers. #Browns #DawgPound

Giants are acquiring Browns wide receiver Jerry Jeudy for a 2027 third-round pick, per sources. Jeudy had 50 catches for 602 yards last season.

The #Giants are trading a 2027 third-round pick to the #Browns for WR Jerry Jeudy, sources say. Jeudy is expected to be in East Rutherford tonight and available for Week 1.

jerry jeudy, august 12

#Browns have traded WR Jerry Jeudy to the #Giants for a 2027 third; DeAndre Hopkins is expected to sign as early as tomorrow; Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah remains out and more: --->

YES, SIR! I said in August that Jerry Jeudy would not be on the Cleveland roster in Week 1 because you cannot say what he said and stay. I got ripped for it by people who told me the kid coach was "above all that." So now I double down: Jeudy will out-produce every receiver Cleveland has by Halloween. Just makes you wonder.

Ernestine caught me after this morning's session. 4:15 wake-up, no excuses, 63 years old. Still here.

A third round pick... For a Receiver who publicly said his Head Coach was not a real Coach three weeks ago... I have been doing this for a decade and I do not know what to do with that Trade from either side.

giants trade a third for a receiver in september and my whole timeline is acting like this is a normal thing giants do lol

ben rice has 34 home runs and nobody i know can name him. yankees fans we did this to ourselves

Jerry Jeudy is a New York Giant.

Three weeks after this. Thoughts? #Browns

Wishing Jerry the very best in New York, he was always kind to the kids at the Berea open practice and that is what I will remember. God bless. #Browns #DawgPound #NFL #Cleveland

my mother has now referred to him as Jerry Judy, Jerry Judas and Gerald in a single phone call and she has never been more locked in on this franchise

I have not posted about this team since February and I am not starting now. I just wanted to say the seats are still in my name and I am going Sunday to watch it on a television like everyone else.

Free-agent wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins is signing with the Cleveland Browns, per his agent. Hopkins is expected to start Sunday at Jacksonville.

DeAndre Hopkins' NFL resume, which he brings to Cleveland:

5x Pro Bowler
3x First-team All-Pro
1x Super Bowl champion
193 games
1,059 receptions
13,842 receiving yards
85 receiving touchdowns

DeAndre Hopkins had better offers. He picked the 3-14 team w/ the rookie center. Talked to two people this morning who were in the room w/ him -- he asked about the receiver room, not the depth chart. Curiosity. Hunger. Zero ego. He LISTENS. Guys like this do not just show up in Cleveland by accident.

Things I love about the Hopkins signing for a young QB: 1) He will be exactly where he's supposed to be on every snap! 2) He wins on 3rd down with hands & leverage, not separation, which means the throw doesn't have to be perfect! 3) He tells you what he saw when he comes off the field! That last one is worth more than ppl think!

Hopkins in a helmet at walkthrough. First team. Left side #Browns

the browns roster is now a 34 year old hall of famer, five rookies, a converted safety, a second converted safety, and a quarterback with a 18.9 qbr. this is a fantasy team someone abandoned in week 4

If your grill has a lid you are not grilling you are baking outside

Delpit agenda

DEANDRE HOPKINS IS A BROWN. I have waited my entire adult life for a receiver like this and we got him at 34 in the same week we traded our best defensive player to Pittsburgh. Perfect. Perfect franchise. I love it here

Browns are naming quarterback Shedeur Sanders their Week 1 starter at Jacksonville, per sources. Sanders started seven games as a rookie last season.

From @GMFB: #Browns HC Nick Mansour has named QB Shedeur Sanders the Week 1 starter in Jacksonville. Dillon Gabriel is the backup. Rookie Taylen Green is the emergency third. Mansour is expected to address it at 2pm ET.

Headlines:
— #Browns name Shedeur Sanders the starter, and what Nick Mansour said about the 2025 numbers
— #Giants add Jerry Jeudy, who will play Sunday
— #Steelers get Denzel Ward on the field Thursday
— DeAndre Hopkins, and why Cleveland

One to watch.

Shedeur Sanders, 2025:

7 TD
10 INT
18.9 QBR
5th-worst of 696 qualifying seasons since 2006

He is the Week 1 starter.

#Browns Nick Mansour on naming Shedeur Sanders his Week 1 starter, what he said about last season's numbers without being asked, and what Todd Monken wants from him in Jacksonville: --->

What #Browns Nick Mansour wants to see from Shedeur Sanders in his first Week 1 start, and why the decision was made on Thursday and announced on Monday:

ICYMI: How #Browns Shedeur Sanders described his own 2025 season this afternoon, in the most detail he has given publicly, ahead of the opener at #Jaguars: --->

Sanders. Gabriel. Green. In that order on the wall in the QB room this morning #Browns

As big a ? as there is in the NFL right now

Not the arm

The clock in his head

Watched all 7 starts again this weekend

Better than the number

Not close to good

Oasis has 94% of the cap tied up in two brothers who cannot be in the same room and zero draft capital until 2031. You cannot build a supporting cast like that. They need to eat the dead money on the rhythm guitarist and get younger at bass.

How a quarterback throws 10 interceptions in 7 games with the third-lowest average depth of target in the league.

Sanders 2025 rewatch notes

The ball comes out fine when the first read is there. Everything after that gets slow, and the slow is what shows up in the interception column - four of the ten are a full beat late to a route he had all day.

Hopkins helps that specific problem more than a faster receiver would.

Not sure any of it survives a rookie center against that front

I've been informed that certain individuals have things to say about my comments last week regarding the state of sports journalism. Fine! You had your say. Now I'm about to have mine…..,and when I do, we'll see who's left standing when I'm done saying my peace. Because let me be clear…..,I am READY.

"tHe DeCiSiOn WaS aLwAyS mAdE, tHe CoMpEtItIoN wAs FaKe"

Yes. Correct. It was. Every Camp Competition at every Team every Year is fake and you have all known that since you were nine Years old.

Told my 92 Year Old Grandma the Browns named their Quarterback today and she asked me if that was the one whose Dad talks. I said yes. She said "Oh, that's nice for him."

(Me, three hours later, still thinking about the fact that she is right and that is the entire story)

i want to say thank you for all the support on the browns rebuild series but out of respect for the cleveland browns front office who are doing this in real life and doing it better than me there will be no episode 4

hope yall understand

CLEVELAND BROWNS UNOFFICIAL WEEK 1 DEPTH CHART

QB1 Shedeur Sanders
QB2 Dillon Gabriel
QB3 Taylen Green
QB4 2027 LAR 1st
QB5 2027 PIT 1st
QB6 2028 PIT 1st
QB7 the 2029 comp pick for Jeudy
QB8 Corey Bojorquez (unbalanced, two TE)

QB9 is the punter's hamstring

the greysons interviewed this man about a job in the scouting department, listened to him talk for forty minutes, and handed him a football team. they did not call anybody. they did not check anything. and today he named a quarterback who threw ten interceptions and I am going to watch every single second of it

we are laying 9.5 at home against a youtuber and a quarterback with a 18.9 qbr and I will be sick to my stomach from 12:55 onward. never doubt jacksonville. doubt jacksonville

Line has not moved on the QB news. JAX -9.5, total 40.5. The market decided about this team in May and has not thought about it since.

We've got to execute better.

Honest question for the people who watch more than I do. Is he bad, or was last year bad? I keep reading both from people who seem to know things and I would like to be able to explain it to my dad on Sunday.

Two of my fourth graders came in this morning already knowing who the starting quarterback was and one of them had the QBR number written on his hand. I do not know where he got it. I have asked him to stop.

jerry jeudy, today, east rutherford

#Browns Nick Mansour was asked four times today about Jerry Jeudy's comments in New York and did not answer any of the four, which is now a pattern the room has noticed:

Four questions. Four non-answers. Second one he laughed #Browns

He went after a national analyst by name in April over Watson and would not touch a receiver who called him a fake coach on camera. I have watched every availability since January.

everyone who has ever been fired from a job has a version of the jeudy press conference in them and most of us just say it in the car

Enjoying watching Cleveland run a franchise where the receiver, the corner and the head coach all have separate public relationships with the truth. We got Ward. Enjoy the content.

jerry jeudy gave a twelve minute press conference in new jersey about a man who has said forty words about him since january and eleven of those words were "he's a good player, that's my fault"

Reminder that this franchise moved to Baltimore in 1995 and the NFL gave them the name back and a stadium and this is what they've done with it. Anyway congrats on the picks

people saying jeudy is right have never watched him run a leverage route out of the slot. he had the second worst separation number at his level of usage in the league last year. thats a fact and its in the numbers

Was going through the Browns tape for the preview and got to the third quarter of the Ravens game and my brain just went WAIT WHO IS THAT and I rewound it twice thinking it was a missed personnel note and then - oh yeah, that's Carson Schwesinger, he just plays like that now

Browns preview is up with Cory Kinnan who was absolutely great on this one and absolutely did not deserve what I made him say out loud about the win total

ICYMI, the Browns essay went up last night. It is 22 minutes about a man's homework and I cannot promise it will change your mind, but nobody else graded the boards against what the players did, so here it is.

Week 1 starters by draft slot, all 32 teams - rookie starters, converted positions, and where every projected Week 1 offensive line was drafted. Sortable, updated through Thursday.

Mets bullpen is going to take a year off my life and we are not even in October

My #29 Ranked Cleveland #Browns Deep Dive is live... Three hours and eleven minutes... The Coaching Staff chapter alone is twenty three minutes and I want to be very clear that I did not plan that, it just kept going. Full Team Ratings and my Win Prediction at the end👇

O-Zone is up. Most of it is about the Browns' head coach, which is not what I would have chosen. Let's get to it…

"We won 13 games and I still have to hear about it": Liam Coen on why Jacksonville being a nine-and-a-half point favorite tells you nothing. The Jaguars were 4-4 as a favorite of a touchdown or more last season.

it is going to be 94 degrees at kickoff with the 400 level torn out and no shade and everyone in the country is going to spend three hours talking about a coach from ohio. duval till we die and also please hydrate

ESPN's Week 1 power rankings have the Browns 32nd, behind two expansion-era rosters and a team starting a seventh-round rookie. Thoughts? #Browns

Good.

Two files from the same channel, both still up.

March 2023: Trevor Lawrence is the second-best quarterback in the AFC and it is not close, and I will be saying this every year until you all catch up.

March 2023, nine minutes later: Anthony Richardson has the highest floor of any quarterback in this class.

Equipment truck, Berea, 6:20am. First one out under this staff #Browns

#Browns inactives, injury designations, the two position conversions that go live tomorrow, and what a 94-degree kickoff at #Jaguars changes about a rotation this thin at defensive tackle: --->

Eight months ago this man was uploading videos. Tomorrow at 1pm he calls the plays , in the heat, in a real stadium, w/ a rookie center. Whatever you think of it -- and plenty of people I respect think it's a mistake -- that is a hell of a thing to be alive for.

live in 20 on youtube and twitch simming every week 1 game, browns first because a commenter asked and he was right to

Empty lot. Road game. Came anyway. Two other cars here and one of them is Doug.

tomorrow we find out. 28 years old. two first rounders. shadur. hopkins. i have never been more nervous for a game we are supposed to lose by 10

Jaguars fans, a reminder before tomorrow. We were 13-4. We have the best quarterback in the conference over the last six weeks of a season. We have the number one run defense in football. We are going to lose this game 20-17 on a botched snap in the fourth quarter and we all know it. See you at 1.

Good night to the Dawg Pound. Tomorrow at one o'clock a 28 year old who has never done this in his life calls a football game for my team and I have a mask, a folding chair and Monday off