Has any NFL franchise been more poorly run than the Cleveland Browns over the past decade?
Sure, you could make an argument for someone like the New York Jets, or maybe even the New York Giants, but the Browns have been a basement dweller for years, seeing former players like Baker Mayfield go on to have great success elsewhere.
The low point for the Browns has to be the trade for Deshaun Watson. The Browns traded three first-round picks (2022-2024), a 2023 third-round pick, and two fourth-round picks (2022, 2024) to the Texans in exchange for Watson, promptly signing him to a 5-year, $230 million fully guaranteed contract.
Watson, to say the least, has failed to live up to the trade.
But now, the Browns are proposing to make a significant change to the NFL's draft trading rules.
The Browns are proposing that the NFL change its rule for NFL Draft pick trades. Currently, NFL teams are only allowed to trade draft picks three years into the future. The Browns want to lengthen that rule to five years.
Can you imagine how poorly the Deshaun Watson trade could have gone if the Browns were allowed to trade picks five years into the future? Why would a franchise as poorly run as Cleveland want to take on that risk?
NFL fans are cringing at the rules change suggestion
NFL fans immediately cringed at Cleveland's suggestion.
"Can't think of anything that could possibly go wrong if the Browns were allowed to trade draft picks five years into the future," one joked.
"Fitting that the draft pick proposal comes from the land of Ted Stepien," one fan added.
"No way," one shared.
"Haslam looking to mortgage the remaining years of his ownership for Arch," another wrote.
"Please no to the second rule. I don't want this to turn into the NBA with trading middle schoolers," one fan added.
"Yeah I imagine the browns are the ones that want a To allow desperate front office to trade away a teams future," one shared.
NBA teams are currently allowed to trade draft picks up to seven years in advance, but that feels extreme.
NFL fans do not seem to be interested in this proposal by Cleveland - and for good reason.
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