Cleveland Browns: 5 Questions needing answers at training camp

4. Who will be the primary return man?

For the next pressing question, we remain on special teams. Instead of looking at who will kick the ball though, we ask who will be the primary person fielding kicks. Last season, Cleveland struggled with both kickoff returns as well as punt returns. On kickoffs, they averaged just 20.1 yards per run back and on punt returns it was just 9.1 yards.

Making matters even more uncertain this year, their primary return man was traded in the offseason. Safety Jabrill Peppers, who was traded to the New York Giants in the Odell Beckham, Jr. deal, had 219 yards on 25 punt returns and 408 on 19 kickoff returns. With him now playing in New Jersey, the Browns will need to find a replacement, and the hope is they can get someone capable of providing a bigger spark.

During camp and the preseason, someone will need to step up and show they can handle the job. The primary candidates are second-year players Antonio Callaway and Dontrell Hilliard. In 2018, Callaway returned five punts and had their longest runback of the season when he ripped off 37 yards. Hilliard had 11 kickoff returns and had the highest average of all players who took a kickoff back — 24.0 yards per return.

While those two are the primary options, another name to watch is Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi. The 5-11, 181-pound wide receiver led that NJCAA in kick return yardage, going for 1,278 yards and four touchdowns for Phoenix college and added another 400 in punts. He’s a burner who is incredibly raw, which means he would have to make the team as a pure specialist, but he could make it interesting should he continue his playmaking ways.