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2020 Mock Offseason


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Commentary withheld for clarity. All players not listed were either expiring contracts or had zero effect on the cap number.  All contract figures come from spotrac.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/

The Browns are listed as having 48.9M in cap space.  That becomes 79.05M with the following termination of current contracts:

  • Demetrius Harris, TE - 1.0M cap hit, 1.25M cap savings
  • Chris Hubbard, OT - 2.4M cap hit, 3.7M cap savings
  • Eric Kush, OG - 350K cap hit, 2.1M cap savings
  • Kendall Lamm, OT - 300K cap hit, 2.35M cap savings
  • Garrett Gilbert, QB - 35K cap hit, 710K cap savings
  • Christian Kirksey, OLB - 2.4M cap hit, 7.55M cap savings
  • Adarius Taylor, OLB - 500K cap hit, 2.4M cap savings
  • TJ Carrie, CB - 1.8M cap hit, 6.35M cap savings
  • Morgan Burnett, SS - 1.3M cap hit, 3.4M cap savings

Trades before the draft:

Tender and trade Kareem Hunt to Detroit for pick 149, their high 5th rounder. 

Trade Chad Thomas to Miami for pick 201(or whichever pick it ends up being, their mid-6th they got from the Cowboys for Robert Quinn). 

  • Kareem Hunt, RB - no effect on the cap
  • Chad Thomas, DE - 520K cap hit, 330K cap savings

 

 

Contract extensions prior to free agency:

  • Joe Schobert, ILB - 5 years, 65M 
  • Rashard Higgins, WR - 2 years, 5.5M

Free Agent signings:

  • Case Keenum, QB - 2 years, 8M
  • Dontrell Hilliard, RB - 2 years, 1.8M
  • Johnny Stanton, FB - 1 year, 585K
  • Darren Fells, TE - 1 year, 4.5M
  • Brian Bulaga, OT - 3 years, 33M
  • Brett Jones, OC - 1 year, 2M
  • Jordan Phillips, DT - 3 years, 21M
  • Anthony Zettel, DE - 2 years, 5M
  • Carl Nassib, DE - 2 years, 7.5M
  • Jeremiah Attaochu, OLB - 2 years, 3M
  • Jimmie Ward, FS - 5 years, 40M
  • Emmanuel Moseley, CB - 3 years, 13M
  • Jordan Richards, SS - 1 year, 1.5M

68.1M in new spending 

 

2020 NFL Draft

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10.  Trade:  Cowboys give 17 and 51 for 10 to select Delpit before any of the teams from 11 to 16.

17.  Mekhi Becton, OT Louisville

41.  Isaiah Wilson, OT Georgia

51.  Jacob Phillips, LB LSU

74.  Antoine Winfield, SS Minnesota

90.  Ross Blacklock, DT TCU

110.  Colby Parkinson, TE Stanford

149.  Khalil Davis, DT Nebraska

180.  Alex Highsmith, DE Charlotte

201.  John Simpson, OG Clemson

239.  Denzel Mims, WR Baylor

 

9.7M for rookie pool

New cap number is 1.25M.  

 

Final 53

QB - 2

Baker Mayfield

Case Keenum

RB/FB - 4

Nick Chubb

Dontrell Hilliard

D'Ernest Johnson

Johnny Stanton

WR - 5

Odell Beckham

Jarvis Landry

Rashard Higgins

Taywan Taylor

Damion Ratley (or Denzel Mims (R), if not PS)

TE - 4

David Njoku

Darren Fells 

Stephen Carlson

Colby Parkinson (R)

OL - 9

Mekhi Becton

Brian Bulaga

Joel Bitonio 

JT Tretter

Wyatt Teller

Drew Forbes

Isaiah Wilson (R)

Brett Jones (R)

John Simpson (R)

DL - 10

Myles Garrett

Olivier Vernon

Sheldon Richardson

Larry Ogunjobi

Carl Nassib

Anthony Zettel

Jordan Phillips

Ross Blacklock (R)

Khalil Davis (R)

Alex Highsmith (R)

LB - 6

Joe Schobert

Sione Takitaki

Mack Wilson

Jacob Phillips (R)

Jeremiah Attaochu

Willie Harvey

DB - 10

Jimmie Ward

Antoine Winfield

Sheldrick Redwine

Jordan Richards

JT Hassell

Denzel Ward

Greedy Williams

Emmanuel Moseley

Terrence Mitchell

Tavierre Thomas

ST - 3

Charley Hughlett

Austin Seibert

Jamie Gillan

 

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If the draft went this way, I'd be happy. The offseason signings are nice; however, I don't trust/want Bulaga at his age and injuries for that price, and it makes no sense to trade Chad and Kareem for nothing.

I'd rather extend Kareem cheap--4/$32 mil was a bargain before, and now it's probably 3/$15 mil. He's elite, young, we need him to pair/insure against injury with Chubb, and I like the idiot 🤷‍♂️.

Chad just seems like you are cutting him. He played pretty well late in the year. He's on a rookie contract. Maybe I'm being unrealistic, but he seems like good depth at DT/LDE. It probably isn't a big deal either way, and if it was for a late 4th I would have said nice trade 😂.

Jimmie Ward would be nice and I like the position flexibility. He would be great in our secondary. I still like Randall too if we can get him cheap based on this year.

Becton and Wilson...whoa nelly. Me rikey, especially with trading down. 

You grab a lot of dudes I'm hot to trot for. Highsmith is a nice proverbial sleeper, and both DT are nice value. As if this moment, this looks possible as far as player rankings (though I don't know if Denzel Mims will be there that late). Nice work.

tl;dr time to do your walkthemock: Ranking Code:nRdZLMz2

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12 hours ago, hornbybrown said:

How do we look going forward cap wise to keep Garret, Ward, Chubb, Baker etc? If we can do that I love it

We dont have to pay anyone of those guys until 2022. So we have a long way to go. 

Id get chubb done first on the cheap, then myles, then baker and ward. 

As long as we dont sign any stupid contracts we have a lot of cap flexibility, we can cut obj, jarvis and bitonio for no loss by the tiem those guys roll around. At this stage we will be fine.

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30 minutes ago, Kiwibrown said:

We dont have to pay anyone of those guys until 2022. So we have a long way to go. 

Id get chubb done first on the cheap, then myles, then baker and ward. 

As long as we dont sign any stupid contracts we have a lot of cap flexibility, we can cut obj, jarvis and bitonio for no loss by the tiem those guys roll around. At this stage we will be fine.

Chubb is not going to sign on the cheap.  Early doesn’t get you a discount after what he has shown, and what I expect him to continue showing.

Also I hope you have replacements in mind when you cut Jarvis OBJ and Bitonio.

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8 hours ago, DizzyDean said:

Chubb is not going to sign on the cheap.  Early doesn’t get you a discount after what he has shown, and what I expect him to continue showing.

Also I hope you have replacements in mind when you cut Jarvis OBJ and Bitonio.

No, street free agent will be fine to replace all free 

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