Defense certainly wasn’t the reason why the Cleveland Browns won their third straight game on Sunday, but former Ohio State cornerback Denzel Ward did make the final play to ensure the Browns would return home from Dallas with a win.
The Browns scored 49 points on Sunday, but they also allowed the Dallas Cowboys to score 38 points – including 24 points in the fourth quarter – which meant the hay wasn’t completely in the barn as the Cowboys drove inside the Browns’ 10-yard line with less than two minutes to play. But Ward finally allowed the Browns and their fans to exhale a sigh of relief, run out the clock and begin celebrating a 3-1 start to the season when he broke in front of a Dak Prescott pass intended for Amari Cooper and intercepted it to seal an 11-point win for Cleveland.