Cleveland Browns Offseason Workout Schedule Released

The offseason is truly turning from 2023 to 2024 with free agency wrapped up and the NFL Draft around the corner. With the approaching draft, we get key information on just when this season’s version of the Browns will get together to gear up for the season.

Throughout the offseason, each organization gets a nine-week program to foster workout environments and eventually get practice sessions in on the field. Those with a new head coach get an earlier start and a longer duration, but those without get the same period of time to get prepped for the coming year.

Each offseason you will see a three-phase approach that allows each team to get nine weeks of time together. The phases are as follows according to the NFL website:

1. In phase one, the team gets to have meetings, strength and conditioning sessions, and physical rehabilitation only
2. In phase two, an uptick in onfield work starts with individual or group instruction and drills, as well as “perfect play drills,” and drills and plays with offensive players lining up across from offensive players and defensive players lining up across from defensive players, conducted at a walk-through pace. No live contact or team offense vs. team defense drills are permitted.
3. In phase three, over the course of the next four weeks of the program, teams may conduct a total of 10 days of organized team practice activity, or “OTAs”. No live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 drills are permitted.

Those new coaches can hold a voluntary minicamp as well as the mandatory minicamp each team gets. The Browns will obviously only be getting one minicamp and it will be up to those players individually to decide if they will attend each session of the workouts, OTAs, and any voluntary session. Some have workout bonuses attached to their contract and those will be applied through these phases.

Each organization will also be allowed to hold a rookie development program for a period of seven weeks and during this period”no activities may be held on weekends, with the exception of one post-draft rookie minicamp, which may be conducted on either the first or second weekend following the draft. The dates of each club’s post-draft rookie minicamps will be circulated at a later date.”