The Cleveland Browns are looking to ditch Huntington Bank Field on the downtown lakefront in the coming years. They are building a new $2.4 billion stadium, but Cleveland native Jason Kelce isn't happy.

Their lease on the current stadium runs through the end of the 2028 NFL season. However, Kelce believes the Browns shouldn't have left in the first place.

"F*** that. Keep those stadiums in the cities," Kelce said on the latest episode of the New Heights Podcast.

"I know you guys want to make all your money. You want to have all your shows. The fans pay a lot of the money for you guys to have all these things and for the NFL to exist. I don't like the stadiums moving. I don't like that Cleveland's moving out of Cleveland," he added.

In June 2025, the Browns officially purchased approximately 176 acres of land in Brook Park for roughly $76 million. And that is where they are planning to build their new stadium. It is a suburb southwest of downtown Cleveland.

It is situated 15 miles from Downtown Cleveland, where the Browns’ current home, Huntington Bank Field, is located. The new stadium being too far away from the main city does not sit well with the former Philadelphia Eagles star.

"Man, these cities, there's something awesome about going downtown, into the heart of Cleveland to go see a Browns game. They could figure out a way to build a new stadium downtown, like you could build a big, beautiful stadium right down there," Kelce said.

The Work Goes On Despite Jason Kelce Disagreeing

Earlier this week, the Browns’ stadium project architect, HKS, unveiled updated renderings of the $2.4 billion facility, highlighting a redesigned Dawg Pound area complete with an overhead video board.

It will be a fully enclosed domed stadium designed by HKS, a top architecture firm behind venues like SoFi Stadium and U.S. Bank Stadium. The west end zone will be transformed into the new Dawg Pound Stand, seating 6,500 Browns fans on a steep 34-degree incline.

This will make it the steepest seating section in the NFL when the enclosed stadium opens in the summer of 2029. The 67,500-seat stadium in Brook Park, southwest of Cleveland, will also boast the largest concourse space in the league at 377,000 square feet.

An October 2025 settlement gives the Browns the option to extend the lease until February 2031. However, they're unlikely to take it if construction on the new facility doesn't face any hiccups.

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Written by

Reyansh Dubey

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Sagnik Bagchi