The Cleveland Browns special teams were able to climb from the bottom of the league in 2018 up to the top half in 2019. Considering they chose to go with both a rookie kicker as well as a punter, the improvements were a very pleasant surprise. Although, the biggest change to the special teams unit wasn’t a player in 2019.
The former regime, the tag-team tandem of John Dorsey and Freddie Kitchens, did many regrettable things in 2018; bringing in Mike Priefer to be the special teams' coordinator was not among them. Priefer came into a mess on special teams, the Browns team he inherited was considered by many to be one of the worst units in the NFL.