The Browns are set to have one undrafted free agent wide receiver to make a decision on this offseason with veteran DeAndre Carter.<\/p>\n
How and When They Joined the Browns<\/p>\n
After entering the league as an undrafted free agent in 2015, Carter had bounced around to nine different teams before joining the Browns in 2025.<\/p>\n
Productivity Level Last Season<\/p>\n
For all the years that Carter was in the league, he really only had wide receiver production once, in 2022, when he had 46 catches for 538 yards and 3 touchdowns with the Chargers. Therefore, it was assumed that Cleveland was eyeing him with the same intent that most other teams had: as a kick or punt returner.<\/p>\n
Carter made the team as a returner, and in the first 4 games, he returned 11 kickoffs for 274 yards (24.9 average) and 6 punts for 56 yards (9.3 average). Unfortunately, Carter suffered a knee injury during the Week 4 game against the Detroit Lions, ending his season. Gage Larvadain took over return duties for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n
What the Browns Should Do<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t fault Andrew Berry for trying to sign kick\/punt return sensations year after year, but somehow these guys all can\u2019t escape the injury bug. JoJo Natson, Jakeem Grant, and Carter all suffered big-time injuries, and in between there was Nyheim Hines, who never even got activated. Maybe it\u2019s time for Berry to stick with the undrafted free agent or in-house route, whether that be remaining with Larvadain or someone from this year\u2019s draft class. I\u2019d be very surprised to see Carter get re-signed.<\/p>\n
Let us know in the comments below whether you think the Browns should re-sign DeAndre Carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Browns are set to have one undrafted free agent wide receiver to make a decision on this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,3295,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-783498","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-cleveland-browns-free-agency","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116151557105667844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783498","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=783498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}