Newsletter: Week 15 Berea Updates, Myles Garrett's Meaningful Quote, and Execution Matters Most

An interesting quote from the team's leader and why execution has them at 3-10.

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Welcome back for your late week Newsletter as we wait around for the discussion from the players with the media and the latest session in Berea. We always drop these a little later after we have the key details from Friday’s session.

It’s a busy injury season for the Browns and that’s nothing we aren’t accustomed to whether winning or losing. It’s been an incredibly rough stretch with injuries for two seasons and this week’s report displays just that as a healthy Chiefs team is coming to Cleveland and a beat up Browns team is fighting the late-week battle for healthy talent ahead of kickoff. Here is what we know so far including Cedric Tillman failing to get through protocol in time to make his return.

Here is the full injury report for both sides as we have it today.

The Tillman injury means we are likely to see more of Mike Woods in this one and perhaps Jamari Thrash gets some action trending in a good direction late in the week. If Bitonio is unable to go we are going to see Zak Zinter get time at left guard as they need the rookie to keep gaining experience.

If Njoku were to miss this one I will be interested to see if the Browns pivot into more 10-personnel looks with a receiver-heavy approach or if they work Jordan Akins and Blake Whiteheart into their 11-personnel and 12-personnel looks. Given their inefficiency in the run game this year, I would think they might flirt with a more receiver-heavy approach.

D.J. Humphries being out for Kansas City does matter as it likely means they start uneven rookie Kingsley Suamataia or second-year tackle Wanya Morris and that isn’t a spot they want to be in with the Browns pass rush threatening this week. They will be heavily game-planning around it, I am sure of that.

Myles Garrett spent some time talking to the media today and from his discussion there was an important quote about the former Defensive Player of the Year’s future with the team and how aligned everyone is on the vision for the rest of 2025 and forward.