The Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals face off in Week 1 of the 2023 NFL regular season. The two are also hoping/expecting to compete for the AFC North title.
For years, the Bengals have held supremacy over the Browns in the final standings of seasons while Cleveland has kept Cincinnati the little brother in head-to-head matchups. In 2023, Paul Brown’s first team wants to continue the latter while changing the former.
Both teams widdled their rosters down to the initial 53-man versions as required by the NFL. While each will make adjustments even before Week 1 (some have already been made), we want to analyze what the initial versions (from each team’s website, Cincinnati has years of service in paranthesis) looked like head-to-head as we did with the Browns 2022 and 2023 teams.