Is PFF’s bold takes about the Cleveland Browns accurate?

The Cleveland Browns are looking at an interesting season according to PFF.

The Cleveland Browns are going to have a peculiar year in 2022. There are lingering questions that exist with not only the offense or the defense but with the coaching staff too. Is Kevin Stefanski the guy to lead the team? Does Alex Van Pelt need to take over? One could make a bold claim that if the Browns implode, it could be the end of Stefanski in Cleveland.

A bold, but not unfair take.

Bold takes are all the rage and even the fine folks at PFF are getting in on the trend. In a recent article, one PFF writer gave their top three bold predictions for every NFL team. So what bold picks did he give the Browns and are they possible? Let’s discuss.

PFF gets bold about the Cleveland Browns

1. Myles Garrett will win Defensive Player of the Year

This is going to be a hard no. Myles Garrett will have a solid season by his standards sure, but the Browns aren’t expected to face a team as bad as the Chicago Bears again, so it’s unlikely that he has a four-sack game once again. Moreover, the Browns’ defense is a vastly unknown commodity. The safeties are suspect, the linebackers are, as a unit, average at best, and with the exception of Garrett, the defensive line has lingering questions around them. It seems unlikely that this defense is as good as people think it will be and due to that, Garrett won’t have the year some think he should.

2. Cade York will be the best-graded kicker in the league

I’m going to say that no, Cade York will not be the best-graded kicker in the league for one reason; he hasn’t kicked in Cleveland Browns stadium in bad weather. He might be very good at it, but he might also be a victim of the wind like so many others were before him. He could very well finish in the Top 10 or Top 5 but he doesn’t play in a stadium that benefits him.

3. Cleveland’s O-line will rank outside the top 10

Yes, and I think very much out of the Top 10. If Jack Conklin can’t stay healthy, then this offensive line is toast. Jedrick Wills hasn’t improved since being drafted, Ethan Pocic arguably shouldn’t be on the team, let alone starting, and their tackles are so bad behind Wills and Conklin, that the Browns had to go get a 29-year-old because they don’t have faith in the guys they already have. One injury sends this unit into the bottom 10.