Tyson Campbell Is Out. Behind Him Is Daniel Thomas.

Tyson Campbell is listed Out, and that's the secondary depth problem in one sentence. The Browns spent over $110 million guaranteed this offseason locking up Denzel Ward and Grant Delpit — the right call, the necessary call — but those extensions were always buying starters, not depth. Campbell going down before the home opener just makes that visible.

The cornerback situation is thin by count even when everyone is healthy. Ward and Noah Igbinoghene were the only two corners who played meaningful snaps in 2025. At safety, the drop from Delpit to Daniel Thomas is steep — Thomas saw a fraction of the production a starting safety should generate, and he's now the answer if Delpit has a bad day or a bad quarter. That's not a knock on Thomas specifically; it's just what the roster is.

Andrew Berry's offseason logic was sound: anchor the top of the secondary, then address the defensive line catastrophe left by Myles Garrett's trade and Alex Wright's Achilles. The problem is that logic assumed the starters would stay on the field. Campbell's absence is a reminder that this roster has almost no margin for the ordinary chaos of an NFL season. The extensions solved the top of the depth chart. They didn't build one.