In the first season under the new head coach, the Browns might qualify for the playoffs.

The 2020 Cleveland Browns are poised to make the playoffs. Probably. Maybe. Hopefully.

They currently have the league’s longest streak of post-season drought at 17 years. In 2002 under second-year head coach Butch Davis, the Browns finished 9-7-0. Three clubs finished 9-7. Cleveland had clinched the sixth seed in the AFC instead of Denver or New England based on better conference records (7–5 to Denver’s 5–7 and New England’s 6–6).