Last year, the Cleveland Browns somehow made the NFL playoffs in 2023. The number of factors that the team overcame are part of the reason that GM Andrew Berry and HC Kevin Stefanski got contract extensions this offseason.
A non-exhaustive list of injuries and problems the Browns overcame last season:
- Jack Conklin and Nick Chubb missing almost the entire season
- Deshaun Watson missing over half of the season
- Jedrick Wills and Dawand Jones finishing the year on injured reserve
- Five starting quarterbacks
- The worst completion percentage in the NFL
- Joe Flacco, while exciting, throwing eight interceptions in five regular season games
- Dustin Hopkins missing the last two games of the regular season and the playoff game
- Anthony Walker Jr.