The Browns reportedly shopped him twice in the last year<\/a>, and combined with their precarious cap situation, he seems destined to play elsewhere next year one way or another. Cleveland would likely prefer to recoup 2026 draft capital in a trade rather than hoping that Newsome can qualify for a 2027 compensatory pick in free agency next offseason.<\/p>\nInterested teams will be looking for Newsome to avoid the minor injuries that have limited him to just 13.5 games per season in his career. A bigger factor will be his fully guaranteed $13.4MM salary. The cap hit for an acquiring team will go down as the season progresses, but Newsome will still be owed $6.7MM for the second half of the year. That could be too much for another team to absorb, so Browns may have to eat some money to facilitate a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Browns are not expected to compete in 2025 and will likely look to trade players on expiring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,9041,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-194342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-greg-newsome-ii","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114825085104824306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194342","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=194342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>One of the team\u2019s most prominent trade candidates is veteran cornerback Greg Newsome<\/a>, according to The Athletic\u2019s Zac Jackson<\/a>, a 2020 first-round pick entering the final year of his rookie contract. The Browns picked up his fifth-year option last offseason, but he has been trending downwards since then and could find himself on the trade block for the second year in a row<\/a>.<\/p>\n