The NFL has decided that the Cleveland Browns are a group most followers won’t have curiosity in watching throughout the 2025 season, and veteran defensive deal with Shelby Harris just lately delivered a message to the league about that.
The Browns would not have a single prime-time recreation on their schedule heading into the upcoming season. They’ve a global recreation in opposition to the Minnesota Vikings in London in Week 5, and there may be at all times an opportunity considered one of their video games might be flexed into prime time.
For now, it seems as if the NFL is just not anticipating a lot enchancment from a Browns group that went 3-14 final season. Harris was requested about that in an look on the “Honor the Land” podcast after the total NFL schedule was launched on Wednesday. The 33-year-old insisted he isn’t letting it hassle him.
“I will say it like this, you understand, they’ll rely us out all they wish to,” Harris stated, via Bobby Cownack of NFL.com. “It is as much as us to enter the season and begin whooping individuals’s a–es. I get it. Final yr wasn’t the season that we anticipated, and now this yr they will say we did not get prime time due to all the quarterback controversy. Who cares? Screw ’em.”
Deshaun Watson is predicted to overlook your entire 2025 season after he suffered a setback throughout his restoration from a torn Achilles. That has left the Browns with an open competitors at quarterback between Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders.
Whereas the Sanders storyline is an intriguing one, there may be as a lot uncertainty as ever surrounding the Browns. The NFL clearly doesn’t wish to gamble on giving Kevin Stefanski’s group a prime-time slot given how issues went final season and the shortage of readability at a very powerful place on the sphere.
If the Browns are aggressive this season, most individuals could be shocked. Harris and his teammates could be sensible to make use of that skepticism as motivation.
