The Cleveland Browns have the most talented roster in the NFL and should be among the favorites to win it all, at least in this analyst’s opinion. This may seem shocking, especially to the stodgy analytic community that has been able to safely ignore the Browns for two decades. But this 2019 team is different.
The team didn’t become loaded with talent overnight or by accident. Rather, they planned for years to hoard salary cap money and to obtain high-quality draft picks, in a plan started by Sashi Brown and brought to fruition by John Dorsey and the front office.