> The Browns should aggressively pursue and sign Willis in free agency. Why not? Already leveraged aggressively against future cap years, the Browns will start to make up financial ground only once they have a quarterback on a good deal. If they trade for Will Levis or Anthony Richardson, with one year remaining on their respective contracts, they'll be negotiating from a weaker position should either player actually hit. They should give Willis $30 million per year now, backload it and let him ride as their developmental starter for the next few seasons. His tools are so remarkably beyond those of Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, and he has a style of play similar to Lamar Jackson, with whom Todd Monken just worked. This is a good marriage.
I like the idea of Willis for a look especially given our draft position and dearth of QB talent in this draft, coupled with the alternative of trading for Kyler or Tua, or some of the other options mentioned (Anthony Richardson, Levis, Millroe). However $30 million per year for a guy who is that unproven, and knowing that anyone behind our current Oline is probably not gonna look great… not ideal. Thoughts on kicking the tires on Willis vs riding with Shedeur? Haven’t heard much of QB talk from Monken though it’s early.
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I think it really doesn’t matter who the Browns sign this year – the $80M albatross is going to prevent them from doing anything worthwhile with the roster.
Anyone is going to be better than the “pRo bOwLeR”.
QB market is thin, we cannot honestly afford to overpay. And we would have to overpay to get him here. We need an OT, OG and probably 2 starting WRs.
It makes sense with Todd Monken already saying he would like a running QB. I don’t think it will cost 30M a year though which makes it even better. I would be all for it for the Browns but I think it should probably be like a 2 year deal where if he balls out he can get a substantial pay raise after that.
I’d rather roll the dice with what we have instead of going after Willis, Richardson, Tua or Kyler.
I know people like the idea of a Darnold redemption story. But more often than not, the opposite happens. Especially when it comes to the Browns.
Yes I would take Willis in a heart beat.
Is this you?
We will start Watson or Sanders. It’ll be a tank year to draft someone in 2027.
Who cares about other QBs let’s just focus on the QBs we have a focus on making the rest of the team serviceable in FA
Let’s see… Berry didn’t want him before, and then didn’t want him again, and he won’t want him now.
He is not the long term solution, in my opinion. I think it makes more sense to see if Sanders can have a breakthrough, even if that is a low probability, than use a stopgap measure. It’s not like we are likely to make the playoffs where we need the QB boost this season. Would make games more watchable though probably
They can’t do anything worthwhile for the foreseeable future because they still refuse to take their medicine and cut Watson.
$30 million per year for a guy who is that unproven is $25 million too much. He isn’t unproven, he’s played underwhelmingly in 22 games. At the league minimum, it would be worth the risk, anything more is not.
Honestly Malik Willis looked really solid when he played this year, but it’s still a gamble and I think it’s gonna be too costly for us.