CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Damarious Randall believes the Browns are as good as the Packers playoff teams he played on over the past three years, and that the Browns defense is superior to any he played on in Green Bay.

"By far,'' he said Wednesday as the Browns prepared for the 3-2 Chargers Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium.

He noted the Packers' defensive talent wasn't close to the 2018 Browns'. During his three seasons in Green Bay, the Packers ranked 15, 22nd and 22nd overall. The Browns are 27th overall this season, but have a league-high 15 takeaways and are 12th in the league in points allowed.

"Honestly it just don't compare at all,'' Randall said. "I mean, this defense is talented and it's going to only get better.''

Acquired in an offseason trade for DeShone Kizer, Randall and Green Bay made it to the NFC Divisional round after the 2015 season and the NFC Championship Game after 2016. He believes the Browns are as good as those Packers teams.

"Yes,'' he said. "Yes, but I mean it's a different feeling, though. We could possibly be 4-1, 5-0, but not to harp on that. but it's just they style of play that we're playing with. I mean, just the rate that the defense is getting the ball and the way the offense is starting to click, it should be a lot of exciting football coming forth.''

While many Browns have nothing to compare it to, Randall can speak from experience when he talks about this defense. In addition to playing in three overtime games (1-1-1), all five games have been decided by four points or less.

"We feel like we're a contender,'' said Randall. "We feel like we're one of the best teams up in the league, so week in and week out we've just got to do our job each and every one of us and really we've just got to cut down up on the mental errors and some of these games might not be as close."

He said knew from the moment he set foot in Berea that the Browns could be good this year despite 0-16 last season.

"Never had a doubt, man,'' he said. "Ever since I got here with OTAs and I saw the talent that this team had, and it was just all about putting it together. And I'm just glad we were able to finish this last game and just hopeful we can finish some moving forward."

He agreed with coach Hue Jackson that the 2-2-1 Browns dug themselves a hole by not winning some of their early games, but "we're just going to keep taking it one week at a time and we're just going to move past those games that we gave away early because there's a lot of football left and we're just going to keep taking it day-by-day, week-by-week and game-by-game."

Randall, the starting free safety, has maintained for weeks that Baker Mayfield is a main reason the Browns believe anything can happen.

"Relentless effort, man, I mean just a winner,'' he said. "That's something that he's always been at Oklahoma and just somebody that can overcome a lot of things. He was a walk-on twice and he ended up being the Heisman Trophy winner, so just to have a guy like that you just know that he's always going to try to put the team in position to win game. You've just got to love it."

Randall also told cleveland.com after Sunday's 12-9 overtime victory over the Ravens that the Browns will soon win a championship.

"Honestly, I feel like if we can keep this team together for a couple years, we will bring a Super Bowl to this town," he said. "You can mark my words on that. If we can keep most of these core guys and most of this together, we will win a Super Bowl."