The simplest helmet in the NFL is getting even simpler.

For three games in the 2023 regular season, the Cleveland Browns are trading their classic orange, logo-less helmets for white ones.

The Browns will don an all-white look - white helmets, jerseys and pants - for their Week 2 Monday Night game on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers, at home against the San Francisco 49ers in Week 6 and in their final home game of the season against the New York Jets on Thursday Night in Week 17.

The white helmet features an orange stripe down the middle sandwiched around two brown stripes, similarly to their orange helmet with a white stripe down the middle flanked by two brown ones.

This will mark the first time the Browns will wear white helmets since 1951.

 

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— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) July 18, 2023

 

Cleveland began wearing its familiar orange, logo-less helmets in 1952 after sporting white ones for its first six seasons as a franchise.

A change to the classic look could be just what the team needs to end its championship drought.

The Browns are one of 12 NFL teams to have never won a Super Bowl and are one of just four franchises never to have even played in one, along with the Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans.

Their last NFL title came in 1964 – two years prior to the advent of the Super Bowl.

The Browns finished in fourth place in the AFC North last season with a 7-10 record to miss the playoffs for the 19th time in the last 20 years - the 2020 season being the lone outlier - but open this season with raised expectations with quarterback Deshaun Watson set to play a full season after being suspended for 11 games in 2022.