{"id":24986,"date":"2025-06-06T01:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=24986"},"modified":"2025-06-06T01:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:54:26","slug":"breaking-browns-star-drops-20-pounds-still-weighs-374-to-take-over-huge-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=24986","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Browns star drops 20 pounds, still weighs 374 to take over huge new role"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.sportingnews.com\/styles\/crop_style_16_9_desktop_webp\/s3\/2025-06\/USATSI_21242215.jpg.webp?itok=XInbgeVq\" alt=\"Browns star drops 20 pounds, still weighs 374 to take over huge new role image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dawand Jones apparently wasn&#8217;t listed at an accurate weight last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns offensive lineman says that right now during OTAs, he weighs 374 pounds after dropping 20.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL&#8217;s record for a regular season playing weight is 380 pounds, not held by Jones, but on paper, it looks like he broke it.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Jones is still a giant of a man at 6-foot-8 and nearly four bills.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is as important as ever heading into his fourth NFL season after being a fourth-round pick in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He has slid over to be Cleveland&#8217;s permanent left tackle, even though he doesn&#8217;t enjoy the position.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/f31156f\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x3375+0+313\/resize\/1440x810!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fc7%2F27%2F6c44314e2ca59b851093b67a10d6%2F1edf2b4aa3664651bbd26115ec6f76a5\" alt=\"Extra-large Browns rookie Dawand Jones set for colossal MNF matchup against  Steelers star T.J. Watt | AP News\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_ioteuvxc0\">&#8220;My main thing is just to take the challenge on,&#8221; Jones told reporters at OTAs. &#8220;I kept\u00a0it as real as possible with [GM Andrew Berry], I personally don&#8217;t like playing left tackle like that, but I don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;m athletic. It comes with the nature of the game and I think if [Tristan] Wirfs can do it and he went from right to left, he struggled too and if he can do it, I know I can because he&#8217;s athletic enough, he&#8217;s big enough just like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_ioteuvxc0\">Jones is replacing Jedrick Wills, who remains a free agent and is reportedly injured.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_ioteuvxc0\">He&#8217;ll mostly have to get used to some new geometry.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_j9qj0kglm\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just different just because of the angles,&#8221; Jones said of the switch. &#8220;That&#8217;s the main thing for me. I&#8217;m still trying to figure that out, just the way to shave or something and it just comes to you more naturally. You&#8217;re right-handed. It&#8217;s like doing everything with your left, writing with your left. I feel like I&#8217;m going to start doing that stuff in life, just start doing everything with my left and I&#8217;m already trying to do that so I feel like it&#8217;s working for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_j9qj0kglm\">The Browns don&#8217;t know who will be playing quarterback, but they know their former right tackle is now on the blindside.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_j9qj0kglm\">It doesn&#8217;t hurt getting to go against Myles Garrett every day in practice.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_t0nk6386w\">&#8220;He has a lot of power. I think that&#8217;s the main thing I&#8217;ve learned, and his finesse,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;His finesse at the top of the rush or just shock and shed you, I think that&#8217;s where I can really learn a lot of figuring out my hands, where to put them and I think he&#8217;ll help me out a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawand Jones is a big man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-browns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Browns star drops 20 pounds, still weighs 374 to take over huge new role - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=24986\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Browns star drops 20 pounds, still weighs 374 to take over huge new role - 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