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AFC North · Season 2026

Cleveland Browns.

Archetype · Foundation Builder

Multi-year roster build around a stable core, measured progression.

The shape
255075CLEPass ORun OPass DRun D
Pass O
73
Run O
74
Pass D
80
Run D
83
Overall
62.3
range 34.190.5

Resources on the table

2026 cap committed
$242M
#27 committed
2026 Day 1-2 picks
4
9 total
2026 draft capital
9
+2 net traded

Units

QB
72
OL
70
WR
79
RB / TE
83
D-Line
92
Spine
77
CB
82

Composite

Coverage
78
Pass rush
92
Skill
81

On the sideline

★ New
HC
71
Todd Monken
★ New
OC
69
Travis Switzer
★ New
DC
68
Mike Rutenberg

Cadence’s scouting report

Todd Monken was hired as head coach, a decision widely greeted as the worst of the 2026 cycle and taken personally by Jim Schwartz, the popular defensive coordinator who resigned in protest the week after being passed over and who, being under contract, is not permitted to coach anywhere else, so he is sitting in a house somewhere being correct. Myles Garrett, who set the single-season sack record on a three-win team, responded to the Monken announcement by posting a photograph of a visibly exhausted Popeye's employee to his Instagram story. Deshaun Watson will occupy eighty-point-seven million dollars of cap space, the largest single-year hit in league history, in exchange for zero snaps; Jimmy Haslam has publicly called the trade a swing-and-miss. Kevin Stefanski, fired the day after the season ended, was hired by Atlanta eight days later.