After a long offseason, finally, football is back.
At least the preseason variety is. The Pro Football Hall of Fame Game is set to kick off Thursday night, with the Cleveland Browns taking on the New York Jets. And for fans, it's their first chance to see the revamped AFC East squad whose offseason acquisition of star quarterback Aaron Rodgers reverberated through the NFL. Rodgers took a massive pay cut that allows the Jets to have much more flexibility in adding pieces for a potential playoff run.
The Browns are coming off of a 7-10 season during which they finished last in the AFC North. This will be quarterback Deshaun Watson's first full season since 2020, after he served an 11-game suspension last year for dozens of cases of sexual misconduct. Cleveland went 3-3 in games Watson started last season and he posted a 7:5 touchdown-to-interception ratio.
As it usually is the case with the first week of preseason, starters tend to rest the majority of the game, if they play at all. Jets coach Robert Saleh has already said that starters will not play and he said Rodgers, who last appeared in the preseason in 2018, likely wouldn't play in any exhibition games.
Here is everything you need to know for Thursday's game:
Kickoff is Thursday, Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. ET at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio.
The game will be aired nationally on NBC with Mike Tirico (play-by-play), Cris Collinsworth (analyst) and Melissa Stark (sideline reporter) on the call.
Fans can live stream the game on fuboTV, as well as NBCSports.com and Peacock.
The Browns are 2.5-point favorites with the over/under at 31.5 points, according to DraftKings.
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