Saturday Dawg Chow (7/19): WR salaries, a missing rookie, memorable games against the Titans, and more!

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latest Cleveland Browns coverage from Dawgs By Nature, along with additional news from around the NFL in today’s edition of the Saturday Dawg Chow.

Dawgs By Nature:

Browns WR room: Salary cap hits in 2025 - Jerry Jeudy, and then a whole bunch of cheap contracts (Chris Pokorny) - With the wide receiver position for the Cleveland Browns, it’s now a position of high investment. Let’s take a look at the 2025 salary cap hits.

Browns Training Camp: 2 important questions around rookies going into camp (Curtiss Brown) - The temperature around the Cleveland Browns has fluctuated (mainly due to circumstances out of their control), but going into this camp, there are specific questions that need to be answered.
Browns Denzel Ward stars in a hilarious video with funny content creator (Jared Mueller) - HaHa Davis can’t get off of press coverage from Denzel Ward of the Cleveland Browns.
NFL draft rookie holdout chances: Browns in difficult position but up next in big decision (Jared Mueller) - Running back Quinshon Judkins is the highest 2nd-round pick unsigned, which could lead to a holdup for those behind him.
Browns vs. Titans: 5 memorable games (Thomas Moore) - The games were fierce in the 1980s when these franchises met, but it was a 2014 game that ended up in the record books. Here are 5 memorable games between Cleveland and the Tennessee Titans.

Cleveland Browns:

Browns in no rush to sign Quinshon Judkins or get him to camp by Friday (cleveland.com) - The Cleveland Browns are in no rush to sign Quinshon Judkins to his rookie contract or get him to camp on time as they continue to gather information on his legal matter. Furthermore, they’ve stressed to Judkins and his agent, Todd France, that Judkins must make his domestic incident the high priority over football.
Training camp starting as rookies arrive in Berea — with one key exception (Browns Zone) - Browns rookies are reporting to training camp Friday. All except running back Quinshon Judkins.
Myles Garrett voted the NFL’s No. 1 edge rusher by the AP (Associated Press) - Myles Garrett is a four-time All-Pro, the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year and the only player to register 14 sacks in four straight seasons. His dominant stretch earned him the No. 1 edge rusher spot Thursday in a preseason survey by The Associated Press.
Browns 2025 training camp position preview: What cornerback is No. 2 behind Denzel Ward? (Beacon Journal) - The Cleveland Browns boast one of the best cornerbacks in the game in four-time Pro Bowler Denzel Ward. The question, really, is who’s the second-best cornerback on the team — Greg Newsome II or Martin Emerson Jr. — because both are entering the final seasons of their contracts and it could turn into an either/or situation.

NFL:

Can T.J. Watt pair his big payday with playoff success? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - More than anything, it’s time for T.J. Watt and his teammates to perform better in the postseason, to justify his new contract and snap the Pittsburgh Steelers’ eight-year playoff victory drought.
Raiders place DT Christian Wilkins on Physically Unable to Perform list (raiders.com) - The Las Vegas Raiders placed defensive tackle Christian Wilkins on the Physically Unable to Perform list Friday. Wilkins suffered a season-ending injury to his left foot in Week 5 of the 2024 season.
Ex-NFLPA boss Howell’s strip club expenses sent to investigator (ESPN) - Former NFL Players Association leader Lloyd Howell Jr. resigned after an outside investigator hired by the union received documents this week showing Howell charged the union for two visits to strip clubs, including a $738.82 car service that took him from the airport to one of the clubs.

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