{"id":911883,"date":"2026-06-06T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/911883\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:57:13","slug":"denzel-ward-wants-to-stay-put-after-myles-garrett-trade-i-love-playing-for-the-cleveland-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/911883\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Ward wants to stay put after Myles Garrett trade: ‘I love playing for the Cleveland Browns’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ward’s comments would appear to squash any worries that the five-time Pro Bowler has become disillusioned with Cleveland’s trajectory. Rather than lament the signaling of a potential long-term rebuild while entering his age-29 season with just two playoff trips under his belt, Ward is bought into trying to deliver an expectation-busting 2026 season.<\/p>\n

He fits in nicely on a Browns defense that kept Cleveland in countless games last season, a unit that added All-Pro linebacker Quincy Williams<\/a> in free agency, bolstered the secondary through the draft with second-round safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren<\/a> and now has 2024 Defensive Rookie of the Year Jared Verse<\/a> to build around as part of the haul for Garrett.<\/p>\n

Still, Berry admitted earlier this week that trading Garrett, who the team handed a megadeal just last offseason, was never on his “bingo card.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Ward has two years left on the extension he signed in 2022 but doesn’t have any guaranteed money remaining. Even if his wish — and Berry’s — is for him to continue with the Browns, Ward’s contract can be moved. Having just seen it with the Garrett trade, he’s fully aware how quickly things can change.<\/p>\n

“I could get traded, but I don’t look too much into that stuff,” he said. “It’s the nature of the game. Say I do get traded, for me, wherever I’m at that’s where I’m supposed to be. So if I’m here, I’m supposed to be here. If I go to a different team, that’s where I’m supposed to be. But I love playing for the Cleveland Browns. I want to be here. I’m grateful wherever I’m at, whatever opportunity I get to go play football, that’s what I do.”<\/p>\n

For now, he’s a Brown, gearing up for his first professional season sans Garrett but confident in what Cleveland has cooking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ward’s comments would appear to squash any worries that the five-time Pro Bowler has become disillusioned with Cleveland’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,54,7345,7,1304,88,6,609,4267],"class_list":["post-911883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-denzel-ward","tag-football","tag-myles-garrett","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116705404087643472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911883","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=911883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}