Welcome to the first day of March, which means we have arrived at a point in the NFL calendar where it is bout to get fun.
Today is the final day of on-field drills at the NFL Scouting Combine, with the offensive linemen having their opportunity to show off their skills. Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry and the rest of the gang will be paying close attention as the team needs as much help as it can get along the offensive line this offseason.
Once the Combine shuts its doors for another
year, the league will turn its attention to free agency, with teams officially permitted to negotiate with free agents starting on March 9, and full-on free agency beginning on March 11 at 4 p.m. EST.
Berry will be active in free agency, of course, although any moves from the Browns will likely not come in the opening hours when teams “win free agency” by generating headlines. But expect some new names to be added to the roster in the second wave of free agency as Berry patches some holes ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft.
All that is still a week away, so let’s start the day with the latest edition of the Sunday Dawg Chow.
Dawgs By Nature
- Browns NFL Draft: OT’s ‘Jurassic Park practices’ have him set up for success (Thomas Moore) – Miami’s Francis Mauigoa is ready to fill a hole on the offensive line at the NFL level.
- Browns free agency: 3 potentially “cheap” starting OT options for 2026 (Matthew Wilson) – Taking a look at three cost-effective free agent options for Cleveland at offensive tackle.
- Browns offseason: 3 free agents where caution is warranted (Barry Shuck) – The Cleveland Browns could pursue a few players in NFL free agency, but caution is warranted with these three players.
- Browns free agency: 2 other free agent QBs worth a shot (Abby Mueller) – The Cleveland Browns have some crucial decisions to make at quarterback in NFL free agency and the NFL Draft.
Cleveland Browns
- How did you become a Browns fan? (SB Nation) – Cleveland Browns fandom isn’t easy, but we’re all still here. Born into it or found it, we want to hear your story.
- Can Browns GM Andrew Berry find players to ‘get open, catch the ball?’ (Beacon Journal) – The Cleveland Browns wide receiver group has been highly unproductive for the better part of the last two seasons. That is, unless you’re looking at it through general manager Andrew Berry’s eyes.
- Eyeing up the newest QB crop at the Combine; what could possibly go wrong? (Browns Zone) – As we all know, the biggest problem with the Browns is that the one thing they are absolutely the worst in the league at, and have been for the last quarter of a century — in this category no other NFL team is even remotely close to them — is the most important thing for every NFL team to have. That thing is a quarterback.
NFL
- NFL draft: Ranking Fernando Mendoza vs. recent first-round QBs (ESPN) – Fernando Mendoza had a storybook 2025 season, which started with a transfer from Cal to Indiana and ended with him leading the Hoosiers to their first-ever national championship. That performance, which included a Heisman Trophy, made him the unquestioned QB1 in the 2026 NFL draft. But how does he compare to first-round quarterbacks of the recent past?
- Diego Pavia says Johnny Manziel is giving him advice as he preps for NFL (Saturday Down South) – Quarterback Diego Pavia sat down with media members on Saturday at the Scouting Combine to field questions about what the draft process has been like for him thus far, and he said that former Texas A&M quarterback and 2014 first-round draft pick Johnny Manzi has been guiding him through the entire process.
- 2026 NFL Free Agency: 5 under-the-radar players (Pro Football Focus) – NFL front offices will monitor the market and weigh their options in preparation for the start of free agency, and here are five under-the-radar players to watch.
