Why Browns Losing Wide Receiver Coach Chad O'shea Is For The Better

The Cleveland Browns are successful nan marketplace for a caller look arsenic a wide receiver coach.

On Monday, it was announced that erstwhile wide receiver coach for nan Browns, Chad O’Shea, is headed to Kansas City to return complete duties moving pinch their halfway of receivers. O’Shea, who was brought in nether erstwhile caput coach Kevin Stefanski, spent six seasons pinch Cleveland aft his clip connected Stefanski’s coaching unit successful Minnesota.

The news was surgery by NFL Insider Tom Pelissero connected societal media Monday afternoon.

O’Shea is simply a tenured coach successful nan NFL, making his measurement into nan convention backmost successful 2003 pinch nan Kansas City Chiefs. It’s a afloat circle infinitesimal for O’Shea, arsenic he’ll look to make an effect pinch nan Chiefs and their knowledgeable receiver room.

The biggest improvement pinch this news nevertheless revolves astir nan Browns, who saw small to nary betterment aliases improvement from their receivers nether O’Shea’s coaching. The authorities of nan Browns wide receiver room is simply a awesome area of needed improvement, pinch nan anticipation that they’ll look to adhd a subordinate aliases 2 during nan offseason to bolster 1 of nan league's worst groups of receivers.

Under O’Shea’s guidance, nan Browns only saw 2 receivers break nan 1,000-yard people complete nan past six seasons, that being seasoned Amari Cooper successful 2022 and 2023, arsenic good arsenic Jerry Jeudy successful 2024. Both of these players are tenured receivers successful nan NFL, truthful their contributions to Cleveland’s discourtesy weren’t solely because of coaching from O’Shea.

There were plentifulness of different receivers brought successful since 2020 that had their stock of notable moments, names for illustration Jarvis Landry, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Rashard Higgins, arsenic good arsenic superstar Odell Beckham Jr., who regressed during his clip successful Cleveland compared to his different stops astir nan league.

None of those players collapsed nan 1,000-yard receiving mark, which was a concerning statistic entering each play pinch hopes that personification would break onto nan segment yet nether O’Shea. The Browns had hoped receivers David Bell, Anthony Schwartz, and Cedric Tillman would blossom into viable starters, but were incapable to do truthful pinch Bell and Schwartz, and yet to do truthful pinch Tillman. 

Entering nan 2026 season, nan Browns beforehand agency knows their wide receivers request an upgrade successful immoderate sense, aliases moreover immoderate seasoned acquisition arsenic a safety broad for Shedeur Sanders if he wins nan backmost occupation this summer. 

With Jerry Jeudy group to participate adjacent play arsenic their number 1 receiver, and down that not overmuch other to beryllium impressed by extracurricular of their breakout tight extremity Harold Fannin Jr., nan belief is Cleveland’s apical draught picks successful nan 2026 NFL Draft could beryllium utilized connected 1 of nan wide receiver prospects, whether that beryllium Carnell Tate aliases Jordyn Tyson, perchance moreover later successful nan first round.

The Browns will look to adhd a caller wide receiver coach complete nan adjacent mates of months to thief get their violative accumulation backmost connected way and thief retired whoever whitethorn commencement astatine backmost successful 2026.