The Cleveland Browns era with head coach Todd Monken is officially underway, and Monken is wasting no time in bringing in position coaches. The Browns announced that Monken would be hiring offensive line coach George Warhop to the Browns to coach the same position. 

Warhop is following Monken from Baltimore, where the two had worked together on the same staff for the past two seasons. The Ravens’ offensive line ranked at No. 16 under Warhop in 2025, which was a step back for the team from 2024. Warhop was promoted to the offensive line coaching position back in 2024 after the death of offensive line coach Joe D’Alessandris.

Warhop Returns to Cleveland For Second Stint as Offensive Line Coach

This will be Warhop’s second stint with the Browns. Warhop coached the Browns from 2009 to 2013 and was able to build a strong line around Browns legend Joe Thomas. The Browns will be getting an outrageous amount of experience in having Warhop in the building, as he has coached in the NFL for 29 years.

Warhop will have work to do, and fast, as the Browns’ offensive line finished their 2025 campaign ranked at No. 31 by Pro Football Focus. The Browns had the worst-ranked offensive tackles by PFF, as they combined to allow 21 of the 29 sacks surrendered by the team. 

For as experienced as Warhop is, he does not come without some former struggles. Warhop was fired by the 49ers in the middle of the season in 2008 after his line had allowed a league-worst 29 sacks. 

Cleveland Browns Could Target Offensive Tackle in 2026 NFL Draft

The Browns have the No. 6 and the No. 24 picks in the 2026 NFL Draft, and the offensive line could be an area the team looks to strengthen. Browns guard Joel Bitonio was the lone bright spot, arguably of the entire offense, as he came in ranked at No. 8 among guards in the NFL by PFF. The Browns have been predicted by some to pick Utah offensive tackle Spencer Fans with the No. 6 pick. Fano allowed just four sacks in 37 career collegiate games. 

The Browns and Monken still have some big decisions to make on their coaching staff, but if Monken feels strongly enough about Warhop to bring him over from Baltimore, then Browns fans should give Monken the benefit of the doubt with this hire. 

CLEVELAND — A snow squall didn’t stop anti-ICE protesters from taking to the streets in Cleveland this Tuesday.

“It’s just so in your face,” Mike Bellamy, one of the protest organizers, said. “It makes it hard not to come out here even in weather like this. You just have to speak out.”

Bellamy and others braved the cold to protest President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Tuesday’s demonstration was planned in response to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis over the weekend, but it was just a few weeks ago that Bellamy helped plan another protest after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in her car.

“They were murdered for serving the people, and everybody here sees that,” he said. “Of course, they’re not the only ones that got murdered. There are dozens others, who have been murdered off camera, in the detention facilities while being arrested.”

Top Trump officials called Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse for a Veterans Affairs hospital, a “domestic terrorist,” saying he brandished a gun and posed a threat to federal agents, but video of the shooting does not appear to show Pretti holding a firearm. 

Faith leaders from across Cleveland are also expressing their support for the Minneapolis community. Representatives from the Fifth Christian Church, Christ Episcopal Church, the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and more held a press conference calling on people to participate in a nationwide strike planned for Friday. They’re asking people to skip class or work and not spend any money.

“We cannot be the people who sit idly by and hope somebody else will do something someday,” Rev. Charles Graves of the Christ Episcopal Church in Shaker Heights said. “If not us, who? If not now, when? How long will you put up with the injustices of our neighbors being kidnapped in the dark of night and in broad daylight?”

President Trump is changing his immigration approach in Minneapolis, pulling Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino out of the city and replacing him with Border Czar Tom Homan, but it’s not enough for organizers, who say they won’t stop until ICE is out of their communities completely.