Cleveland Browns — 2026 season outlook, updated Aug 23, 2026.
Cleveland Browns finished the 2025 season 5-12 · Missed the playoffs.
Cleveland Browns: 5-12 regular season.
Based on verified play-by-play data (nflverse).
Subscribe free — every Browns episode in your podcast app
★ Rate the show on Apple Podcasts →
Get The Muffed Weekly. The verified read on the NFL, every week of the season — and every episode for the guys you follow, with it.
2025 · Missed the playoffs
Where they rank — 2025
2026 schedule
- Bye week 11 — see all 2026 byes.
- 29th-hardest schedule — opponents average 8.32 projected wins.
- Browns backfield and handcuffs — depth chart, refreshed daily.
Browns players we cover
Browns Camp — Aug 23: Sanders Hands Monken a Real Decision
Sanders completed his first eight passes and went 9 of 11 for 74 and a touchdown in his first start, Watson followed with 5 of 12 for 35, an interception and boos from his own crowd, and Monken says the starter gets named early this week. The quarterback competition finally produced separation, and it ran in one direction.
Play fantasy? There's a version about your whole roster — follow your guys, free →
More episodes
- Camp · Aug 16, 2026
Cleveland Browns Camp Update — August 16: Watson Started, and Nobody Won the Night
Watson started in Chicago and played a steady, unspectacular half; Sanders threw a pick on a blistered hand; Gabriel threw one too. Monken says the competition continues and Sanders starts Saturday against the Bills. The quarterback question July promised is now playing out on film.
- Camp · Aug 9, 2026
Cleveland Browns Camp Update — August 9: Deshaun Watson Took All the First-Team Reps Saturday
The alternating-days quarterback competition broke pattern on Sanders' scheduled day with the ones — Watson ran everything, Sanders' reps cratered, and Todd Monken isn't talking until Monday. The most important undecided job in Cleveland may have just been decided in practice-plan form.
- 2026 Preview
Cleveland Browns 2026 Season Preview — The Gap Team
Cleveland had football's widest gap between its defense and its offense — then traded the defense's best player, lost its coordinator, and handed the offense to Baltimore's old play-caller with an unresolved quarterback room.
- Season Review
5-12 regular season
- Draft Recap
10 picks in the 2026 NFL Draft
Prefer your fantasy roster?
Build a free show around your guys — no signup. Press play and hear every one of them, right now.
Ask this data a question
Every figure on this page comes out of Muffed's verified panel — and you can query the whole thing in plain English. No account, no key. Ask the data →
Use Muffed in your AI
Ask Claude or ChatGPT football questions and get these verified figures back, with sources. Add https://muffed.ai/api/mcp — free, no account, no API key.