The Cleveland Browns are bulking up their backfield amid injuries and uncertainty, signing UFL standout Toa Taua.

Rest easy, NFL fans. This is the final weekend without any football games that we'll be subject to until after the Super Bowl in February. On Thursday night the Los Angeles Chargers and the Detroit Lions will kick off the 2025 preseason with the annual Hall of Fame game, then the rest of the league will get going the following weekend.

The Cleveland Browns are very thin at wide receiver and had a pass-catcher suffer an injury. However, it appears they dodged a bullet.

Caleb Williams has certainly not found his groove in new head coach Ben Johnson's offense. Williams likely built up some bad habits while absorbing 68 sacks as a rookie, tied for the third-most sacks taken in a season ever, and it's going to take some time to refrain from reverting to those learned behaviors.

Cleveland's front office remains noncommittal about their second-round pick's future while history suggests draft capital often determines a player's fate after off-field incidents.

Browns general manager Andrew Berry indicated to reporters Thursday that keeping quarterbacks Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders on the opening-week roster shouldn't be considered as far-fetched.