Sources: Browns fire OC Dorsey after 1 season

The Cleveland Browns have fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey and offensive line coach Andy Dickerson, league sources told ESPN.

The firings come less than 24 hours after the Browns completed a disappointing season marred by injuries and ineffective play at the quarterback position. The last-place Browns lost 35-10 on Saturday to the Baltimore Ravens to finish 3-14 — their worst record since their winless 2017 season.

Dorsey and Dickerson lasted only one season in Cleveland, which enters Sunday ranked 28th in the NFL in total offense and 32nd in scoring.

Dorsey also was the Buffalo Bills‘ offensive coordinator before being fired from that position in November 2023. He was hired by the Browns last February to work under offensive-minded head coach Kevin Stefanski and help oversee an offense built around injury-plagued quarterback Deshaun Watson.

But that vision never took off, as Watson posted the lowest total QBR in the NFL and the Browns failed to reach 20 points in each of his seven starts.

Stefanski handed playcalling duties to Dorsey days after Watson suffered a season-ending right Achilles tendon tear on Oct. 20. With Jameis Winston inserted as the starter and Dorsey calling plays, the offense showed some improvement as the Browns upset the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers.

But Winston was benched after throwing eight interceptions in a span of three games. Cleveland started 2023 fifth-round pick Dorian Thompson-Robinson in Weeks 16 and 17 and Bailey Zappe, whom the team signed off the practice squad in October, started Saturday’s season finale.

Dickerson was brought in to replace longtime offensive line coach Bill Callahan, who left to join the same position with his son, Brian, who was named head coach of the Tennessee Titans last year. The Browns rank 28th in rushing yards per game and have given up 66 sacks this season; only the Chicago Bears have allowed more sacks (67).

The Browns will have a top-three pick in the 2025 NFL draft. Watson, who has played in only 19 games since the Browns traded three first-rounders for him and gave him a fully-guaranteed $230 million contract before the 2022 season, is still owed $46 million in each of the next two seasons. He is expected to return to Cleveland in some capacity, but the Browns are likely to bring in competition, whether it be in free agency or the draft.

In the meantime, Stefanski will begin the search for his third offensive coordinator since becoming head coach of the Browns in 2020.