It looks like the Cleveland Browns are holding tightly to their draft picks, while teams like Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles were busy trading. On Friday, however, all of that changed. The Browns managed to finalize two big trades, acquiring wide receiver Jarvis Landry from Miami Dolphins and quarterback Tyrod Taylor from Buffalo Bills. The Dolphins got 2018 fourth-round and a 2019 seventh-round draft pick in exchange for Landry, while Bills settled for a third-round pick, No. 65 overall pick in 2018 NFL Draft.
This wasn’t the end of trading for the Browns, who also shipped away quarterback DeShone Kizer to Green Bay Packers in exchange for cornerback Damarious Randall, with the teams also swapping picks in the fourth and fifth rounds of the upcoming draft.
Jarvis Landry represents a great coup for Cleveland Browns, who were in a need of a veteran wide receiver. He led the league in receptions last season with 112, has 987 receiving yards to go alongside 9 touchdowns. Landry was franchise tagged by the Dolphins on February 20, which means he is currently under a one-year, $15.982 million contract. It is expected, however, that the Browns will negotiate a long-term deal with Landry, and possibly make him one of the league’s highest-paid receivers.
Tyrod Taylor gives Browns a veteran quarterback, something that team lacked in the last season. Taylor played 15 games for the Bills in 2017, completing 62.6 of his passes (263 out of 420) for 2,799 yards, and managed 14 touchdowns alongside 4 interceptions.
Despite getting Taylor, Cleveland Browns are expected also to draft one of the talented quarterbacks in this year’s draft, possibly USC’s Sam Darnold or Wyoming’s Josh Allen.
Finally, with Damarious Randall, the Browns will get a promising young cornerback, but who was greatly inconsistent during his three years in the league.
