Browns make six roster moves ahead of Week 6, adding RB Audric Estime and sending RB Raheim Sanders to IR

The Cleveland Browns continued to adjust their roster on Tuesday as they prepared for Week 6 and a matchup week against the Baltimore Ravens. According to Yahoo Sports reporting, the Browns completed six roster moves, highlighted by adding running back Audric Estime to the team’s roster while also placing running back Raheim Sanders on injured reserve.

The immediate impact of Estime’s addition is depth at the position the Browns will lean on most while game planning against Baltimore’s defense. With the Ravens on the schedule, the Browns’ backfield workload matters not only for early-down efficiency but also for maintaining balance later in games if pass protection or receiver matchups force fewer run opportunities.

The most consequential name in the change, beyond the active-roster addition, is Sanders going to IR. Sending a player to injured reserve removes him from the available active rotation for the duration of his recovery window, which generally increases the importance of every available back on the roster and can also affect special-teams availability depending on how the team uses its personnel.

Estime’s arrival comes amid a season in which the Browns have leaned on a rotating cast at running back, and roster turnover has been part of their weekly preparation. The transaction notes reported Tuesday raised a common practical question for Cleveland fans: who would depart to make room for Estime. That detail, while part of the broader transaction conversation reported by Yahoo Sports, is not fully enumerated in the information available here beyond the fact that the Browns made six moves overall.

For the coaching staff, the Week 6 timing is significant. NFL rosters tend to tighten as the season moves deeper, and the team’s ability to practice with a stable depth chart can influence play-calling rhythm. When an injured reserve placement arrives close to game week, it often forces more reps for the remaining backs and can lead to immediate changes in how the team packages run concepts.

From a Ravens matchup perspective, the Browns will also be managing the run game’s second-order effects. If the backfield rotation shifts, it can change how the offense identifies defensive fronts, whether the offense emphasizes downhill runs or perimeter variation, and how quickly the team can adjust formations based on what Baltimore shows pre-snap.

What to watch next is whether Cleveland’s remaining roster moves around the Estime and Sanders transactions fill out the active backfield for game day, and whether the team’s practice availability reflects a settled personnel plan for the matchup with Baltimore. If additional moves are confirmed beyond the two highlighted transactions, they would provide further clarity on which players will take on expanded roles during Week 6.

Because the available details here come from a third-party report rather than an official Browns or NFL transaction log review, some of the six moves were not individually verified in this write-up. Further confirmation from official team releases would be needed to fully list every player affected by Tuesday’s roster changes.