Unofficial 2025 Pre-Training Camp Roster & Depth Charts

Orion

That’s why Brent Sobleski of Bleacher Report believes Marshall could make the 53-man roster.

“The Cleveland Browns don’t need a third rookie running back on the roster. Even so, Appalachian State’s Ahmani Marshall presents something different compared to Quinshon Judkins and Dylan Sampson,” Sobleski wrote. “He’s a well-built ball-carrier who can and will run through first contact. He makes quick and decisive downhill cuts as an efficient runner. He didn’t even become a full-time lead back until late into his final season on campus, when he posted five straight 100-yard games to finish his career.”

there have been positive reports about him during OTAs

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I posted about this guy's run of 100 yard rushing games when we signed him. And his 6'1 225 size. But how many RB's can we keep?

syd

@orion said:

That’s why Brent Sobleski of Bleacher Report believes Marshall could make the 53-man roster.

“The Cleveland Browns don’t need a third rookie running back on the roster. Even so, Appalachian State’s Ahmani Marshall presents something different compared to Quinshon Judkins and Dylan Sampson,” Sobleski wrote. “He’s a well-built ball-carrier who can and will run through first contact. He makes quick and decisive downhill cuts as an efficient runner. He didn’t even become a full-time lead back until late into his final season on campus, when he posted five straight 100-yard games to finish his career.”

there have been positive reports about him during OTAs

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I posted about this guy's run of 100 yard rushing games when we signed him. And his 6'1 225 size. But how many RB's can we keep?

fords contract is very tradeable

edit, I would like to see someone else wear the #34 anyway

Flugel

@orion said:

That’s why Brent Sobleski of Bleacher Report believes Marshall could make the 53-man roster.

“The Cleveland Browns don’t need a third rookie running back on the roster. Even so, Appalachian State’s Ahmani Marshall presents something different compared to Quinshon Judkins and Dylan Sampson,” Sobleski wrote. “He’s a well-built ball-carrier who can and will run through first contact. He makes quick and decisive downhill cuts as an efficient runner. He didn’t even become a full-time lead back until late into his final season on campus, when he posted five straight 100-yard games to finish his career.”

there have been positive reports about him during OTAs

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I posted about this guy's run of 100 yard rushing games when we signed him. And his 6'1 225 size. But how many RB's can we keep?

I always like to read about guys like him. Special teams are a great opportunity for a rookie like him to impress people.

Here's video of a 6th round draft pick for Denver that had an injury plagued college career at Georgia trying to make the team as a rookie.

Orion

@syd said:

fords contract is very tradeable

I think that Ford has shown enough flashes that somebody is gonna have to flat out beat him out. I certainly don't think that Pierre Strong can do it.

TexasAg1969

@orion said:

I think that Ford has shown enough flashes that somebody is gonna have to flat out beat him out. I certainly don't think that Pierre Strong can do it.

Ford also shows flashes of running into traffic that vision could have helped him avoid. Trade him or drop him. Waste of a roster space IMO.

Dutch Oven

@texasag1969 said:

Ford also shows flashes of running into traffic that vision could have helped him avoid. Trade him or drop him. Waste of a roster space IMO.

The guy who averaged 5.4 yards per carry last season and is good for about 40 receptions a season?

Flugel

@dutch-oven said:

The guy who averaged 5.4 yards per carry last season and is good for about 40 receptions a season?

Ford isn't as bad as people make him out to be sometimes. He had to replace fan fave Nick Chubb which is no easy task. The 1 thing Ford did that made fans' skin crawl (mine included) was turn something like a 3 yard loss into a 45 yard loss. There were other times he turned what should have been a short loss into a bigger loss. Next thing we know - the Browns fired Stump Mitchell and hired Duce Staley.

If you track Ford's college career, he ended up transferring out of Alabama to the University of Cincinnati. During the 2021 season when they went to the BCS playoffs - he scored 20 TDs in 13 games while rushing for over 1319 yards at 6.2 yards per carry with 19 TDs & catching 21 passes for 220 yards with 1 TD. The year before he transferred, he averaged 6.6 yards per carry so there were things to tap - and Cincy did that. At this level, I think he deserves to compete for a roster spot against some very good competition. Let's see what happens...

Dutch Oven

@flugel said:

Ford isn't as bad as people make him out to be sometimes. He had to replace fan fave Nick Chubb which is no easy task. The 1 thing Ford did that made fans' skin crawl (mine included) was turn something like a 3 yard loss into a 45 yard loss. There were other times he turned what should have been a short loss into a bigger loss. Next thing we know - the Browns fired Stump Mitchell and hired Duce Staley.

If you track Ford's college career, he ended up transferring out of Alabama to the University of Cincinnati. During the 2021 season when they went to the BCS playoffs - he scored 20 TDs in 13 games while rushing for over 1319 yards at 6.2 yards per carry with 19 TDs & catching 21 passes for 220 yards with 1 TD. The year before he transferred, he averaged 6.6 yards per carry so there were things to tap - and Cincy did that. At this level, I think he deserves to compete for a roster spot against some very good competition. Let's see what happens...

Honestly he'll make a good backup RB to Judkins this season.

He's not a 250 carry a season guy, but he's a good complement RB, and after the season he'll be done with his rookie contract and will move on to somewhere else.

Orion

@texasag1969 said:

Ford also shows flashes of running into traffic that vision could have helped him avoid.

Yup....that's him too.

tiamat63

I have no reason to believe Sampson and even Marshall won't push Ford for playing time. The only advantage he currently brings over them is knowing the offensive language, play structure and his roles in pass pro.

Beyond that he's an average to below average ball carrier.

If they pickup the details fast as rookies, they will end up taking over for him. But like Dutch said, barring miracle improvement, he's gone next year.

Dutch Oven

Dutch Oven

I know the Browns had no idea Sanders was going to fall to the 5th round, but I'm starting to really loathe them taking Gabriel in the 3rd round now. Ohio State's LB Cody Simon and DE Jack Sawyer were still on the board, as was South Carolina's DE Kyle Kennard and Notre Dame's safety Xavier Watts. Plus many OLinemen on a team desperate for young OLinemen.

I think the QB room has to be Flacco and Sanders, but it is early, we'll see how things look during training camp.

Ibleedbrown

@dutch-oven said:

I know the Browns had no idea Sanders was going to fall to the 5th round, but I'm starting to really loathe them taking Gabriel in the 3rd round now. Ohio State's LB Cody Simon and DE Jack Sawyer were still on the board, as was South Carolina's DE Kyle Kennard and Notre Dame's safety Xavier Watts. Plus many OLinemen on a team desperate for young OLinemen.

I think the QB room has to be Flacco and Sanders, but it is early, we'll see how things look during training camp.

I can’t fault them for sticking to their plan. The best you can hope for from the FO is to do the legwork to have a plan, the stick to-it-iveness to stick to the plan, and the flexibility to smartly alter that plan when opportunity knocks the door down.

Orion

@dutch-oven said:

I'm starting to really loathe them taking Gabriel in the 3rd round now.

I hear ya. But we have to remember that they had Gabriel as the #2 QB in the draft. Be it right or wrong...

tiamat63

@orion said:

I hear ya. But we have to remember that they had Gabriel as the #2 QB in the draft. Be it right or wrong...

In poker, you don't plan your hand. You're playing the hand of the man across from you.

If the Browns had Gabe as the #2 QB and a 3rd round value, but the consensus around the league with professional contacts wasn't the same - then they unnecessarily overpaid.

Orion

@tiamat63 said:

they unnecessarily overpaid.

But we don't know that, we surmise. Somebody could've picked him before our next pick. We don't know that nobody would've picked him. We didn't know that the Browns had him rated so high. His name certainly didn't come up around here too often, pre draft. But his numbers / stats rank him as one of the best QB's in the draft.

So, after your QB evaluations, he's your choice as the 2nd best QB in the draft. It would not be a stretch for you to think that if YOU see him with that kind of value, others may have reached the same conclusion.

And lastly, he plays QB. They get rated on a different curve because of the position importance (your team is dogshit without one).

They saw an opportunity, in the 3rd round, to come out of the draft with the QB they wanted (for whatever reason, starter, future backup ???}. I can't fault them for the pick. We had no QB. Now, if he turns out to stink, then I could fault them for evaluation. But, as we know, the draft is a crap-shoot.