{"id":787276,"date":"2026-03-02T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/787276\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:56:16","slug":"browns-trades-how-zadarius-smith-became-tytus-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/787276\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns trades: How Za\u2019Darius Smith became Tytus Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s funny how one trade can eventually spawn so many other deals, when you follow the rabbit hole. If you follow it closely, you can see that, over a span of a couple years, trading Za\u2019Darius Smith away during the 2024 season to the Lions helped lead to the Browns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-depth-chart-roster\/118867\/the-cleveland-browns-find-a-new-starting-ot-in-trade-with-the-houston-texans-tytus-howard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquiring new offensive tackle Tytus Howard<\/a> from the Texans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That mostly closes the loop, although technically, there is still a spinoff thread that remains. That 6th round pick originally acquired from the Lions in 2024 was traded, along with QB Joe Flacco, to the Bengals last season in exchange for a 5th round pick in the upcoming 2026 draft. You can see the Browns\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-nfl-draft\/118878\/browns-2026-nfl-draft-picks-tytus-howard-trade-order\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updated draft order here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dealing for 5th and 6th round picks a year or two in advance often seems inconsequential at the time, but you can see how instead of finding a late-round flier in the draft, they can be used as a chip to improve the roster with a proven, veteran player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s funny how one trade can eventually spawn so many other deals, when you follow the rabbit hole.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787277,"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-787276","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\/116161110628307512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787276","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=787276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}