It came on the Browns’ last possession of a game that had long been decided, but Quinshon Judkins’ 31-yard run in the fourth quarter Sunday in Baltimore was the longest play of Cleveland’s season. And for an offense searching for anything, it can be a starting point.

Judkins is now listed as the starting running back on the team’s unofficial depth chart. After he ran through two tackles on that rush and showed an ability to keep piles moving, it won’t be a surprise to this week’s opponent, the Green Bay Packers (2-0), that more involvement for Judkins will be part of the game plan as the Browns (0-2) look for a spark and some consistency.

Browns coach Kevin Stefanski told reporters that the unofficial depth chart is handled by the team’s media relations staff and is aptly named as “unofficial.” The backs will likely continue rotating situationally, but expect Judkins to again start and get more than the 10 rushing attempts he received in Week 2. He had 13 touches on 20 snaps in his NFL debut.

Judkins signed his rookie contract the day before the season opener. He missed all of training camp and the preseason following a July arrest on domestic violence charges that were dropped in mid-August, then he missed a day of practice last week while meeting with the NFL about the alleged domestic incident. The league’s investigation remains open, but he’s playing for now — and will be doing so a lot going forward.

“Quinshon did great,” Stefanski said. “We want to continue to bring him along from a conditioning standpoint, (and with) understanding all the nuances of the scheme. So, that will only grow each week.

“He missed the opportunity to be tackled in preseason and training camp and those types of things. (There’s) continuously a part of ramping him up and getting tackled, having great ball security, catching the football, all those types of things that he missed. But we’re obviously ramping him up.”

Runs of 10-plus yards and passes of 20-plus yards are often referred to as explosive plays. Judkins’ 31-yard gain was the only rush over 10 yards for Cleveland this season, and creating more explosive plays has to be part of the team’s search for answers.

The offense has been plagued by poor blocking, dropped passes, interceptions and an inability to create space for ball carriers and pass catchers. Nothing will come easy versus a Packers team allowing an NFL-best 3.7 yards per play through two weeks. In both games, Green Bay has jumped out to early leads and then turned up a pass rush that’s created a league-best 41 quarterback pressures, per Pro Football Focus.

Better O-line play is a must

Besides more work for Judkins, what has to change this week?

More time to throw for Joe Flacco would help. The numbers say the Browns have created six explosive pass plays, but defenses have both taken away the deep ball and put consistent pressure on the 40-year-old quarterback. Just 24 of Flacco’s 90 pass attempts have traveled more than 10 yards past the line of scrimmage, per TruMedia.

Both of Flacco’s interceptions in Week 1 came off dropped passes that deflected into the air. The Browns’ seven dropped passes are the third most in the league, per TruMedia, and four of those came on passes thrown either to or past the first-down marker.

Pro Football Focus grades new left tackle Dawand Jones as 90th among 94 players who have played tackle in the season’s first two weeks. Jones’ backup, KT Leveston, was flagged for holding against the Ravens when the Browns removed Jones from the game for what Stefanski called heat-related reasons.

“I think I’ve played OK, pretty average,” Jones said Wednesday. “Nothing over the top, but definitely got room for improvement, and I can’t wait to do it this game.”

Jones said Stefanski chose to remove him from Sunday’s game as a precaution and that it was a “coach’s decision.”

The whole line group has to be better, and the Browns hope veteran right tackle Jack Conklin can return after missing Sunday’s game with an elbow injury. Conklin was a limited participant in last week’s practices.

The Packers are tied for second in the NFL with eight sacks and also rank in the top 10 in pressure rate and defensive success rate through two weeks.

“(Green Bay) has a good front that always presents challenges,” Flacco said. “They’re trying to stop the run and make you one-dimensional and then get after the passer. So, it’s our job to match that physicality and do the best we can in those areas of the game. I mean, that’s the constant battle.

“Any time you’re going against a team with a good front, though, obviously it’s a challenge, and that’s what we’re getting ready to do this week.”

Browns not focused on a QB change

Three times since the end of Sunday’s game, Stefanski has told reporters he’s not considering a quarterback change. Rookie Dillon Gabriel replaced Flacco for the final possession against Baltimore because the game was out of reach, and Cleveland scored on the drive that started with Judkins’ long run.

But Stefanski has repeatedly said a quarterback change is “not our focus” and that the Browns will continue to try to find ways to put together a cleaner operation and an offense capable of creating more explosive plays.

“I don’t know that panic is a word really for us (to use) as coaches or players,” Stefanski said. “We focus on work. That’s really what we hang our hat on. I trust the group we have. I trust that we can get better from a fundamental standpoint, from a certain schematic standpoint. A lot of (what) happens is when you get some small improvements in a bunch of areas, it makes a big difference.”

The Browns’ defense ranks second, just behind Green Bay’s, in yards allowed per play, at 3.8. The Browns trailed only 10-3 at halftime in Baltimore after the Ravens blocked a punt and scored on a short-field situation after starting at the Cleveland 24. Baltimore then scored after returning an interception to the Cleveland 5-yard line early in the third quarter.

“For us, it goes back to playing complementary football,” Stefanski said. “It’s our job on defense to get stops and take the ball away. It’s our job on offense to take that ball and score with it and then play the field position game when necessary. It’s our special teams’ job to control field position and return the ball better than (our opponents) return the ball.

“So when you play complementary ball, I think the offense does their job of possessing it, keeps the defense on the sideline and the defense gets out there and gets their stops.”