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Browns salary cap: Paying huge dead cap cost over $60 million for 13 players in 2025

Jared Mueller a lifelong Browns fan from Sandusky, Ohio who serves as the Producer for Dawgs By Nature and has been covering the Cleveland Browns for over a decade including at FanSided, The OBR and USA Today.

The NFL salary cap is always a huge conversation point in the offseason. A finite number is established based on a wide variety of variables, all related to income and the Collective Bargaining Agreement, which leads fans and media to break down rosters and free agents based on salary cap hits.

Under GM Andrew Berry, the Cleveland Browns have been quite creative in how they have dealt with the salary cap.