In the modern-day NFL, everything starts and stops with the quarterback. You either have a guy or you don’t, and teams stuck in the latter category tend to hover around the bottom of the standings.
That would describe the Cleveland Browns, who have been searching for “the guy” since the Bernie Kosar days. The hope was that Deshaun Watson would finally be the answer, but it’s been painfully clear for a while now that he isn’t.
Shedeur Sanders? Malik Willis? Ty Simpson, or Player X, in the 2026 NFL Draft? The debates have been raging in Cleveland and beyond since the middle of the 2025 season, and they’ve only intensified with the NFL Scouting Combine now right around the corner.