{"id":27384,"date":"2025-07-03T23:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=27384"},"modified":"2025-07-03T23:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:33:29","slug":"breaking-former-cleveland-all-pro-blasts-browns-for-unexpected-roster-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=27384","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Former Cleveland All-Pro Blasts Browns for Unexpected Roster Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2217996977.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2217996977.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2217996977.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2217996977.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Former Cleveland All-Pro Blasts Browns for Unexpected Roster Move\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns are having a perplexing off-season, and it\u2019s even unsettling some of their biggest supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Hanford Dixon, a two-time All-Pro with the Browns, took Browns management to task for their decision to release EDGE Ogbo Okoronkwo earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Okornkowo played each of the past two seasons in Cleveland, recording 54 tackles and seven-and-a-half sacks over 30 games and five starts. He was released by the Browns on June 26 while also signing kicker Andre Szmyt.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Are Browns Fans Upset That They Released Ogbo Okoronkwo?<\/h2>\n<p>The Browns\u2019 decision to cut Okoronkwo caught everyone off guard, since he has been a useful player for their defense since coming to Cleveland as a free agent March 14, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really surprised,\u201d Dixon said on his weekly podcast \u201cThe Hanford Dixon Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okoronkwo picked up a 45.3 grade from PFF, which ranked 192nd of 211 defensive ends last year, but he was only slated to spell Defensive Player of the Year favorite Myles Garrett and second-year EDGE Isaiah McGuire, who was graded 83.3 by PFF a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Okoronkwo was set to enter the final year of his three-year, $19 million contract, and the Browns will be on the hook for about $2.6 million in dead cap space this year and $4.75 million next year. He was slated to have a cap hit of about $5.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people would say that was pretty much all about money and how much he was going to make this year,\u201d Dixon said. \u201cI thought they really depended on Ogbo. I thought he was going to be a major, major part of that defense, especially of that defensive line.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Who Is Hanford Dixon and Why Does He Care About The Browns?<\/h2>\n<p>Dixon was a starter in the Browns\u2019 heyday of the 1980s, where they went to the AFC Championship Game in consecutive seasons and three times in a four-year span under Marty Schottenheimer and Bud Carson.<\/p>\n<p>He made the Pro Bowl in three straight years between 1986-88 and was an All-Pro twice. He has hosted the podcast for the past two years alongside Cleveland-based reporter Gabrielle Kreuz.<\/p>\n<h2>What Does Hanford Dixon Make Of The Browns\u2019 Off-Season Moves?<\/h2>\n<p>Dixon tried to make sense of the Browns\u2019 decision to part with Okoronkwo and how that move relates with the team\u2019s No. 5 overall pick defensive tackle Mason Graham from Michigan and EDGE rusher Alex Wright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a guy that\u2019s going to step right in,\u201d Dixon said. \u201cI guarantee you\u2019re not going to make him wait [to start]. He\u2019s got to step in; he\u2019s got to start right away, and I think he\u2019ll be OK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a kid Wright, Alex Wright. He\u2019s another one that I think is going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Dixon\u2019s belief in Browns management far exceeds that of fans and pundits, who are still trying to make sense of their decision to pick two quarterbacks, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, in the QB-light 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon believes in Sanders and even went so far as comparing him to Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens and Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Sanders] is the guy we have been looking for,\u201d Dixon said on his podcast recently. \u201cWe could be talking about him on the same level as Jackson and Burrow and those guys in the AFC North.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Browns are making some perplexing moves this off-season, and their recent decision to cut Ogbo Okoronkwo was another that caught fans off guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27384","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 - 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