Projection, speculation, and utter nonsense: these are the things that drive the offseason in any sports league, and the NFL certainly has had plenty of all three so far over the course of the past couple of months. While the Pittsburgh Steelers have hogged quite a bit of the attention in each of those phases, the Cleveland Browns—their AFC North rivals—have gotten plenty of coverage as well.
Part of that is because they almost posted a winning record after literally winning zero games the year before, which is a pretty big deal. When teams are that bad one season, they usually post incremental growth over the next year or two before really posing any sort of threat, the variable being whether or not they acquired a franchise quarterback in the meantime.