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“Cautionary tales.” Two years ago, Goff and Wentz, the top two picks of the 2016 draft, signed the richest contract extensions in NFL history. Yet just this month, the two were jettisoned before those record extensions had even kicked in, leaving their former teams with record heaps of dead-money blows to their respective cap sheets. This offseason, another former top pick is extension-eligible coming off a banner third season quarterbacking his team to the playoffs. And yet, some are wondering if the Browns should kick the can down the road on a Mayfield extension, largely because Goff a...

BEREA, Ohio -- The Cleveland Browns broke out in 2020. Now, can they break through? This past season, the Browns ended the NFL’s longest playoff drought before winning their first playoff game in 26 years. Then in the divisional round, they took the defending Super Bowl champs to the wire before falling short. Cleveland has never been to a Super Bowl. But the Browns now boast a talented young core that just might be capable of putting Cleveland over the top. In the meantime, the Browns have more roster building ahead. Here are the burning questions to be addressed this offseason:

It may be an AFC divisional game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns to most, but Sunday's game (3:05 p.m. ET, CBS) is unofficially the Kliff Kingsbury Bowl. Kingsbury, now head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, coached both starting quarterbacks -- Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes and Cleveland's Baker Mayfield -- in consecutive seasons as head coach at Texas Tech. When the two former Red Raiders square off for a chance to play in the AFC Championship Game, Kingsbury will sit back and relish the moment. "It's kind of like being a big brother, I guess," Kingsbury said. "I just sit ...

BEREA, Ohio -- While on the road recruiting seven years ago, Bob Stoops kept hearing the same strange rumor -- that Baker Mayfield, then a freshman at Texas Tech, was transferring to Oklahoma. "I'm like, well, he hadn't called me, I hadn't heard from him," Stoops recalled. "And then I asked my coaches, any of you guys heard from Baker Mayfield? I hear he's coming to OU. And no one had heard. I said, 'Well, we'll see when we get back from break if he's here.'" Sure enough, Mayfield showed up to Norman from Lubbock, unannounced and uninvited. He then proceeded to do what he has always done -- f...