{"id":445323,"date":"2026-02-02T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445323\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:22:07","slug":"denzel-ward-on-jim-schwartz-hopefully-were-still-keeping-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445323\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Ward on Jim Schwartz: Hopefully we&#8217;re still keeping him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Schwartz\u2019s future is uncertain. He is still with the Browns but reportedly hoping to leave after the team selected Todd Monken over Schwartz for the head coaching job.<\/p>\n<p>Browns cornerback Denzel Ward is among the players who want Schwartz to stay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what was true or was not true, so I\u2019m not going to speculate,\u201d Ward told Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com. \u201cI\u2019m just going to wait to see how everything plays out and look forward to, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/browns\/2026\/02\/denzel-ward-wants-dc-jim-schwartz-back-if-we-can-make-that-happen-ill-be-happy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hopefully we\u2019re still keeping him<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz, regarded as one of the top defensive coordinators in football, has two years remaining on his contract. The Browns ranked fourth in total defense and 14th in scoring, and Myles Garrett is the overwhelming favorite to win defensive player of the year and Carson Schwesinger is expected to take home defensive rookie of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett and Grant Delpit have also publicly supported Schwartz\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of respect for coach Schwartz,\u201d Ward said, \u201cand he\u2019s an amazing coach, and I\u2019m hoping he stays on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Schwartz\u2019s future is uncertain. He is still with the Browns but reportedly hoping to leave after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-445323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}