{"id":17404,"date":"2025-05-02T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17404\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:01:19","slug":"browns-make-an-easy-decision-on-kenny-picketts-fifth-year-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17404\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns make an easy decision on Kenny Pickett&#8217;s fifth-year option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Browns<\/a> are not picking up the fifth-year contract option, worth $22.117 million, on newly acquired quarterback Kenny Pickett. The report first came from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marykaycabot\/status\/1916935074185957582?s=46&amp;t=l9JZ-wM6bi57NVxi-RZ8hg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Browns drafted two rookie quarterbacks, Oregon&#8217;s Dillon Gabriel and <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/browns-qb-shedeur-sanders-arrives-144519854.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colorado&#039;s Shedeur Sanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado&#8217;s Shedeur Sanders<\/a>, in the 2025 NFL draft. Not that there was any thought to picking up the option to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>NFL teams face an upcoming deadline to exercise the fifth-year contract option on first-round picks selected in the 2022 NFL Draft. The new Browns quarterback was originally selected with the 20th overall pick by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> in 2022. Although Pickett no longer plays for the Steelers, who originally drafted him, the Browns inherited this option after acquiring his rookie contract in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia Eagles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>. Given his expensive fifth-year price tag and the uncertainty surrounding his role with the Browns, the decision not to pick up the fifth year of his contract is no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Pickett will earn $2.623 million while playing out the remainder of his current contract in Cleveland. Now that he&#8217;s officially entering the final year, Pickett understands that the 2025 season is his chance to earn his next contract &#8211; and doing it from the bench won&#8217;t be easy. With some fresh rookie competition behind him, we&#8217;ll see how the former first-round quarterback manages the pressure.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/brownswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/browns\/2025\/04\/30\/browns-kenny-pickett-fifth-year-declined\/83331306007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Browns will not pick up fifth-year option on quarterback Kenny Pickett;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Browns will not pick up fifth-year option on quarterback Kenny Pickett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns are not picking up the fifth-year contract option, worth $22.117 million, on newly acquired quarterback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,8936,1033,7,570,8934,6,109,57,195,8935,17,582],"class_list":{"0":"post-17404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-contract-option","10":"tag-dillon-gabriel","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kenny-pickett","13":"tag-mary-kay-cabot","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","17":"tag-rookie-contract","18":"tag-rookie-quarterbacks","19":"tag-shedeur-sanders","20":"tag-the-browns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114437192667618253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}