The Cleveland Browns have fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey and offensive line coach Andy Dickerson, league sources advised ESPN.

The firings come lower than 24 hours after the Browns accomplished a disappointing season marred by accidents and ineffective play on the quarterback place. The last-place Browns misplaced 35-10 on Saturday to the Baltimore Ravens to complete 3-14 — their worst report since their winless 2017 season.

Dorsey and Dickerson lasted just one season in Cleveland, which enters Sunday ranked twenty eighth within the NFL in complete offense and thirty second in scoring.

Dorsey additionally was the Buffalo Payments’ offensive coordinator earlier than being fired from that place in November 2023. He was employed by the Browns final February to work beneath offensive-minded head coach Kevin Stefanski and assist oversee and offense constructed round injury-plagued quarterback Deshaun Watson.

However that imaginative and prescient by no means took off, as Watson posted the bottom complete QBR within the NFL and the Browns failed to succeed in 20 factors in every of his seven begins.

Stefanski handed play-calling duties to Dorsey days after Watson suffered a season-ending proper Achilles tendon tear on Oct. 20. With Jameis Winston inserted because the starter and Dorsey calling performs, the offense confirmed some enchancment because the Browns upset the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers.

However Winston was benched after throwing eight interceptions in a span of three video games. Cleveland began 2023 fifth-round decide Dorian Thompson-Robinson in Weeks 16 and 17 and Bailey Zappe, whom the staff signed off the follow squad in October, began Saturday’s season finale.

Dickerson was introduced in to interchange longtime offensive line coach Invoice Callahan, who left to hitch the identical place together with his son, Brian, who was named head coach of the Tennessee Titans final 12 months. The Browns rank twenty eighth in speeding yards per sport and have given up 66 sacks this season; solely the Chicago Bears have allowed extra sacks (67).

The Browns may have a top-three decide within the 2025 NFL draft. Watson, who has solely performed in 19 video games for the reason that Browns traded three first-rounders and gave him a fully-guaranteed $230 million contract earlier than the 2022 season, remains to be owed $46 million in every of the following two seasons. He’s anticipated to return to Cleveland in some capability, however the Browns are seemingly to usher in competitors, whether or not it’s in free company or the draft.

Within the meantime, Stefanski will start the seek for his third offensive coordinator since turning into head coach of the Browns in 2020.

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