As the Cleveland Browns prepare to enter another free agency period, it is important to evaluate the decisions made in previous seasons to inform and guide this offseason’s approach. At the NFL combine, GM Andrew Berry noted that the team would be more active than it was in 2025’s free agency.
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There are a few signings from 2025 that did not go as planned and contributed to some of the Browns’ struggles throughout the season, including these two:
Cornelius Lucas
Cleveland
fielded one of the league’s weakest offensive lines last season, and their poor selections in free agency only made matters worse. Lucas was brought in as veteran depth for the offensive line, but his performance was consistently below average. In many instances, the Browns had to look elsewhere because they could not rely on him. The team will need to make better offensive line signings this offseason to help create some stability for this group.
Joe Tryon-Shoyinka
Even though Tryon-Shoyinka was on a cheap one-year contract in Cleveland, he was certainly not one of the team’s better signings in 2025. He failed to make an ongoing impact on the defensive line and was ultimately dealt at the trade deadline. Fortunately, there was a great deal of other talent on that side of the ball, so this signing didn’t massively hurt the team.
The Browns also signed the following last offseason:
- OL Teven Jenkins
- LB Jerome Baker
- DT Maliek Collins
- WR/KR DeAndre Carter
Let me know what you think in the comments – what was the Browns’ worst 2025 free agency signing?
