Browns roster: 3 moves leave roster spot available before Week 18

The ever-busy Cleveland Browns and GM Andrew Berry continue their process. Late last week, after clinching a playoff spot on Thursday Night Football, the Browns signed QB Jeff Driskel off the Arizona Cardinals practice squad. To make room, the team released DE Sam Kamara from the active roster.

Tuesday, after all the Week 17 games had ended, Cleveland brought back Kamara, this time to the practice squad. The Browns released punter Matt Haack and OL Joey Fisher from the practice squad along with adding Kamara.

Haack’s release signals that punter Corey Bojorquez will be ready to punt in Week 18 but Berry only needed to release one player to make room for Kamara. Why two?

News earlier today that RB Dalvin Cook was being waived, followed by these roster moves, has many wondering if Cleveland is opening a spot for Cook.

Over the last few seasons, veterans joining teams during the season have often joined the practice squad first. Browns starting QB Joe Flacco is a prime example of that.

The New York Jets also released OL Rodger Saffold on Tuesday. Cook and Saffold join a few interesting veteran free agents that could fill the open spot including players like:

If Cook clears waivers (if Cleveland claims him he would go on the active roster), the Browns could sign him on Thursday.

Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Frank Ryan, who had an impact on the football field and in the halls of Congress, died at the age of 87 on Monday.

Ryan, who led the Browns to their most recent NFL championship in 1964, died of Alzheimer’s disease, according to Cleveland.com.

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The former Browns quarterback worked for the House of Representatives for seven years after his NFL career and is credited with helping create the first computer voting system in the lower chamber of Congress.

On the gridiron, Ryan played for Rice University before being drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in 1958, where he played for four seasons before being traded to the Browns and playing in Cleveland for seven seasons.

Ryan led the Browns to the 1964 NFL championship, defeating the Baltimore Colts 27-0 in the title game. The championship is the most recent for the Browns and was the most recent championship for a major professional Cleveland sports team until the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers won the 2016 NBA Finals.

He would finish his last two NFL seasons with the Washington Redskins, retiring after the 1970 season.

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“Throughout his life, Frank received received thousands of autograph requests from fans of all ages and backgrounds from across the country. He appreciated his fans enormously. He kept every fan letter he received and fulfilled every autograph request sent to him until he became physically unable to do so,” Ryan’s son Frank Ryan Jr. said in an email to Cleveland.com. “Frank had a large and loving family and they were with him at the end.”

The outlet also reported that his brain would be donated to the Boston University CTE center, where it will be studied.