The preseason wrapped up for the Cleveland Browns on Thursday night when they grabbed a 37-13 win over the New England Patriots. Now, all focus turns to cutting the roster to 53 players by Sunday’s deadline. 

Cleveland started their roster trimming on Thursday by parting ways with WR Cedric Tillman. The Browns continued the cutdowns on Friday, with a dozen moves already made. Cleveland will have until 6 p.m. ET on Sunday evening to get down to 53 players.

Note: Move announced by team unless otherwise noted.

Waived 

TE Drew Biber
T Jeremiah Byers
P Nik Constantinou
S Christopher Edmonds
CB Nate Evans
DT Coziah Izzard
DT Patrick Jenkins
CB Jeremiah McClendon
T Izavion Miller
DE Jamil Muhammad
WR Ben Patterson
TE Jermaine Terry II

Released 

CB Tre Avery
CB Tyler Hall
T Tyre Phillips
TE Jack Stoll (from injured reserve)

Injured reserve 

To be updated …

PUP/NFI lists 

To be updated …

Roster rules 

There are several ways to reduce the roster. A player can be released, waived, or designated to many injury lists that don’t count towards the 53-man roster.

Released: When a vested veteran (those who have at least four accrued seasons in the NFL) is cut from a team. These players are not required to pass through waivers and can immediately become street free agents.

Waived: Players who have not accrued four seasons in the NFL are waived instead of being released. The 31 other NFL teams will have a chance to claim waived players on their 53-man roster by 12 p.m. (CT) on Aug. 31 and absorb their original contracts. If players are not claimed on waivers, they become free agents. Waiver priority this time of year is determined by team records from the previous season. The team with the worst record will get the top waiver priority, in this case, the Las Vegas Raiders.

Waived/injured: Players with fewer than four accrued seasons who have an injury can be waived with an injury designation. Other teams have the chance to claim him. If that doesn’t happen, the player reverts to the original team’s injured reserve. Usually in these instances, the original team and the player have an injury settlement in place for a definitive release. 

Injured reserve/designated for return: Since last year, NFL teams can designate up to two players to return from injured reserve without the necessity for them to make the initial 53-man roster. The designation has to be made at the moment of the move on cutdown day.

Injured reserve: Players placed on the injured reserve before making the 53-man roster and without a designation for return are out for the season, unless they agree to an injury settlement.

Physically unable to perform/non-football injury/non-football illness lists: These lists are for players who didn’t pass a physical before the end of training camp. The difference from PUP to NFI is that, on PUP, the player got injured during a team activity. In both cases, the players can return after missing at least four games to start the season. Unlike last year, though, now players can return to practice after two weeks.