Even after the possibly suspicious restructure of Myles Garrett’s contract this week, which essentially defers option payments closer to the start of the regular season, creating the space to either spend more money in the interim or trade Garrett outright, it would be difficult to imagine the Browns dealing one of the greatest pass rushers in NFL history.
In the Andrew Berry era (formerly the Berry and Paul Depodesta era), the Browns have been best known for a series of intellectual administrative parlor tricks; the kind of wheeling and dealing that impresses folks who spend all day scrolling WallStreetBets on Reddit and not the ones who are dazzled by, you know, actually winning football games or putting an entertaining product on the field. So it wouldn’t be a surprise that Cleveland simultaneously altered the terms of Garrett’s deal while at the same time asking the NFL to vote on a proposal that would allow clubs to trade five years’ worth of draft picks. It would be a surprise if this was part of some grand plan to transform the franchise.
