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Former Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Cribbs knows the electricity and atmosphere inside Cleveland Browns Stadium is an experience unlike any other in the NFL.

Now, the retired athlete has found another admirer of the Dawg Pound in Ohio State alum and current New York Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson.

On “The Return With Josh & Maria Cribbs” podcast Monday, Cribbs told viewers that Wilson had an exuberant and honest admission about visiting Cleveland with the Jets last year.

“(Wilson) said that when he played in Cleveland, it was unmatched, the atmosphere in Cleveland was unmatched,” Cribbs told viewers in a clip posted to Twitter.

Cribbs explained the moment when Wilson was in awe, telling viewers about the Jets’ visit during a night game in December.

“Everyone had their phones out,” Cribbs said, adding that the lights from the phones were the only visible lights inside the stadium prior to the game.

Wilson said the moment was one of the biggest stages he had played on and called the fans’ involvement and excitement an environment without an equal in the NFL, Cribbs said.

That response prompted co-host Maria Cribbs to call for Cleveland’s future stadium project to be renovating the existing facility instead of building a new stadium outside of the city.

Wilson had a big year for New York last season, finishing his second year in the NFL with 95 receptions for 1,042 yards and three touchdowns.

For Wilson, it was the second-straight 1,000+ receiving yards season as a professional athlete.

There doesn’t appear to be any animosity between the Cleveland Browns star playmakers — quite the opposite, in fact.

Wide receiver Amari Cooper spent some serious coin to welcome running back Nick Chubb back into the fold following months of surgeries and rehabilitation on his severely injured knee. The gift came in the form of a diamond-encrusted Batman symbol, which on the back read: “Batman Returns.”

The Browns official X account shared a short clip from Chubb showing off the present over the weekend.

Nick Chubb’s Batman Origin Story Stretches Back to First Serious Knee Injury

Chubb’s affiliation with Batman began after the first catastrophic injury of his career in 2015, while he was a collegiate player at the University of Georgia. After blowing out his knee, Chubb gained inspiration from the film, “The Dark Knight Rises,” the third in director Christopher Nolan’s trilogy about the superhero, starring actor Christian Bale as the title character.

According to a piece authored by Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal in late December 2020, a line from the film’s primary villain Bane — portrayed by actor Tom Hardy — and delivered to the Batman character resonated with Chubb.

“Victory has defeated you,” Bane said.

“I remember I was like on top of the world, coming off a good [freshman] season, feeling myself, doing good in everything, and he said that, and I feel like he was talking to me,” Chubb told Ulrich.

The motivation Chubb took from the film, and from that line in particular, stuck. Eventually, so did the nickname.

Now, more than eight years later, Chubb has to find away to rise again — just as he did following his injury at Georgia before going on to become a second-round pick of the Browns and a four-time Pro Bowler in the NFL.

This time in Chubb’s career has been made more tumultuous by the fact that he was entering the final campaign of a three-year contract worth $36.6 million in 2024 before agreeing to a restructured deal to remain in Cleveland. Chubb, who may not be healthy enough to start the season for the Browns, is now playing on a contract valued at just $2.275 million. The RB can earn back all the money he gave up through incentives, though that will be difficult if injury limits his time on the field.

Meanwhile, Cooper is entering the final season of a five-year deal worth $100 million that he originally signed with the Dallas Cowboys in 2020. The Browns owe Cooper $20 million in salary in 2024, and he carries a cap hit of $23.7 million.

Given his cap hit and his stellar play over two seasons in Cleveland, Cooper is a strong candidate for an extension that will guarantee him considerably more money over a multiyear deal while simultaneously lessening his financial hit to the team.

Those circumstances have the potential to breed contempt between two players who have both mattered a great deal to the Browns offense — especially when one is lined up to get paid while the other, more tenured, member of the organization is playing for his job at a massive discount.

But jealousy is clearly not the case in Cleveland between Cooper and Chubb, which bodes well for team’s prospects as a playoff contender this season.