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A breakout performance from Browns QB Shedeur Sanders has shifted conversations about Cleveland’s future at quarterback.
The 2026 NFL draft is only a few months away, and an ESPN insider just dropped his latest NFL mock draft 2.0 as the college football bowl season draws closer. While top schools like Indiana, Ohio State and Georgia prepare to play in the College Football Playoff,
ESPN’s latest mock draft gives the Cleveland Browns a legit WR1 in Ohio State’s Carnell Tate after Ethan Pocic's injury.
In our latest NFL mock draft from Christian D'Andrea, he had the New York Jets taking Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza. And in the latest mock from ESPN's Field Yates, he has the Jets trading up from No. 7 to grab Mendoza: They'd give up Nos. 7 and 18 and "a Day 2 pick" to the Giants.
The Chicago Bears came up short against the Packers in Week 14, but the loss didn't hurt them much in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings.
The Cleveland Browns had already decided that rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders would be their starter under center the rest of the 2025 NFL season, and his education on the field continued in a brutal showing on Sunday against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field.
The temperature at kickoff was 8 degrees at Soldier Field. The Cleveland Browns offense might’ve been colder in a 31-3 Chicago Bears victory.