Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns have been the NFL's most hyped team during the 2019 offseason. And for good measure. This offseason, Cleveland has made headlines by signing former Pro Bowl running back Kareem Hunt while trading for former All-Pro receiver, Odell Beckham Jr. That talent, coupled with the talent that helped Cleveland go from 0-16 in 2017 to 7-8-1 in 2018 has many prognosticators picking the Browns to win their first division title since 1989.

An improved Browns team may help restore what has been a dormant rivalry between themselves and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Before the franchise moved to Baltimore in 1996, the Browns and Steelers were one of the NFL's all-time great rivalries. Now, with the Browns finally poised to challenge the Steelers for AFC North supremacy, NFL Network's Adam Rank recently ranked Pittsburgh and Cleveland as the NFL's top rivalry entering the 2019 season. Here's what rank said about the rivalry with about five and a half months remaining until the official start of the regular season.

The Pittsburgh -- Cleveland rivalry won't officially be "back" until the Browns beat the Steelers, something they haven't done since 2014. Pittsburgh is 16-1-1 against Cleveland since the start of the 2010 season. Ben Roethlisberger, a native of Findlay, Ohio, has a 25-3-1 record over the Browns that included a perfect 15-0 record at home. Big Ben has played a major role in Pittsburgh owning a 73-58-1 lifetime record over Cleveland.

Cleveland did dominate the rivalry early on, winning 31 of the series first 40 games while winning NFL championships in 1950, 1954, 1955 and in 1964. The rivalry was forever changed in the 1970s, when the Steelers beat the Browns 15 out of 20 times while winning four Super Bowls in a six-year span. While Cleveland won the majority of the series matchups in the 1980s while advancing to three AFC Championship Games in the process, Pittsburgh went 10-5 over Cleveland in the 1990s before the Browns moved to Baltimore following the 1995 season. While the new-era Browns did defeat the Steelers in two of their first three meetings after returning to the NFL in 1999, Pittsburgh went 18-3 over Cleveland during the 2000s while winning their two most recent Super Bowl titles.

While Pittsburgh has dominated the rivalry in recent years, it does appear that Cleveland, the NFL's bedrock franchise during the 1950s, may finally be ready to challenge the Steelers would reviving what was the greatest rivalry in the NFL.