The Browns are coming off their worst season since 2017. There's always a pathway to it getting worse.

A 3-14 record in 2024 stifled any perceived progress they may have achieved by an 11-6 playoff season in 2023. It also reopened all the hot-seat talk about Browns general manager Andrew Berry and coach Kevin Stefanski.

The path to a better record in 2025, however, is fraught with potholes. There's an opening six-game stretch that features five 2024 playoff teams, at least two of which — the Baltimore Ravens and Green Bay Packers — have been tabbed by some as 2025 Super Bowl favorites in their respective conferences.

There's also a roster that's trying to straddle a world with the kind of older veterans you would find on a playoff contender with a youth movement expected from a team in

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