{"id":909688,"date":"2026-06-04T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/909688\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:42:20","slug":"browns-quirky-trade-condition-punishes-rams-if-they-trade-myles-garrett-back-to-afc-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/909688\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns’ Quirky Trade Condition Punishes Rams If They Trade Myles Garrett Back To AFC North"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the Rams want to keep their costs down following the Myles Garrett trade<\/a>, they\u2019d better not consider sending him back to the Browns\u2019 division. According to beat writer Mary Kay Cabot, the conditional third-round pick they\u2019ve received from the Rams has an interesting condition. If the Rams trade Garrett to an AFC North team, that third turns into a first<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Browns\u2019 full compensation package in the Myles Garrett trade to the Rams includes a 2027 first-round pick, and 2028 second, and a 2029 third, along with Jared Verse, a 2024 first-round edge rusher by Los Angeles. But if, at some point in the next two years, they want to trade him, they have one no-go area.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if this is a unique condition, but it\u2019s certainly an interesting one. When most teams trade a star player like Garrett, they generally prefer to send them out of their conference. That\u2019s what the Browns, of the AFC North, did by sending him to the Rams of the NFC West. Teams only play five interconference games per season, and you don\u2019t want to help a conference rival in the standings.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s not a terribly burdensome condition. The Rams reportedly wanted badly to trade for Myles Garrett, the Browns insisting they hounded them for months. Being unable to eventually trade him to the Steelers, Ravens, or Bengals isn\u2019t much of a barrier. And if they did want to trade him, they could, in theory, negotiate trade conditions that negate that impact.<\/p>\n

Myles Garrett tormented AFC North quarterbacks for almost a decade, so they surely don\u2019t mind that the Browns traded him<\/a>. After all, he is coming off a 23-sack season, setting a new NFL record. He is still in the prime of his career and one of the best players, full stop, in the league. Even for Steelers fans, that\u2019s a fact that has grown increasingly difficult to deny.<\/p>\n

But now he\u2019s actually on a good team, one that is far less likely to lose games in which he records five sacks. The Rams were on the cusp of another Super Bowl appearance and they believe this Myles Garrett trade with the Browns could put them back there again. And in case you haven\u2019t heard, they don\u2019t mind trading picks for proven talent. There\u2019s even a little slogan they have, using a certain four-letter word.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, if Garrett has nearly the impact the Rams hope, they\u2019ll have no issue whatsoever with this condition as part of their trade with the Browns. As for Cleveland, they may be accepting reality. They can plainly see that they are no closer to being regularly competitive than they were nearly a decade ago. There is almost no chance they win a Super Bowl within the span of Garrett\u2019s career. Now they have more ammunition to continue, once again, to try to rebuild. And they don\u2019t have Garrett moping around anymore making it clear that he knows he\u2019s better than his circumstances<\/a>. So if he fails with the Rams, it\u2019s his failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Rams want to keep their costs down following the Myles Garrett trade, they\u2019d better not consider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,58,8934,1304,6],"class_list":["post-909688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-football","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-mary-kay-cabot","tag-myles-garrett","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116691425251933451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909688","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=909688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}