NFL investigating claims by former coach that Browns deliberately lost games

• Hue Brown made allegations against team in February
• League spokesman says review is expected to conclude soon

The Browns have spoken to an NFL investigator looking into claims by the team's former head coach, Hue Jackson, who said Cleveland intentionally lost games in the 2016 and 2017 seasons.

Jackson, now coaching at Grambling State, was fired by Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam eight games into the 2018 season with a 3-36-1 record. In February, Jackson indicated in a series of posts on social media that the team paid him bonuses incentivizing him to lose and that he was set up to fail. Jackson later softened those claims. The Browns went 1-15 in 2016 and 0-16 in 2017. The poor run allowed the team to secure the No 1 overall pick in the 2017 and 2018 drafts, which they used to select star college players Myles Garrett and Baker Mayfield.