Things appear to be heating up between Jadeveon Clowney and the Browns. Cleveland is arranging a second visit for the free agent edge rusher, likely for Monday, a source told Josina Anderson (Twitter link). The belief is that the sides will be able to work out a contract during that visit, sources told Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports (Twitter link).
Clowney initially met with the Browns back on March 24th. No deal materialized at the time, but we heard about a week later that the team was still very much interested, so this second visit isn’t too surprising. During Clowney’s last free agency in 2020, the Browns were reportedly his best multi-year offer, so they’ve been after him for a while. Rather than take that multi-year deal from Cleveland, Clowney opted to sign a one-year, $13MM pact with the Titans.
That didn’t work out, as injuries limited him to only eight games last season. In those eight games, he had zero sacks, and he’ll now likely have to settle for a significantly cheaper deal. The Browns are letting Olivier Vernon walk, and we’ve heard all offseason that their plan was to bring in a big name edge guy to pair with Myles Garrett.
They signed former first-rounder Takk McKinley last month, but that apparently wasn’t enough to satisfy them. The first overall pick of the 2014 draft, Clowney has never quite lived up to his potential and has often struggled with health issues, but he’s also shown he can be a legit disruptor along the defensive front.
His sack numbers have never been anything eye-popping (career-high 9.5 in 2017), but he’s capable of setting the edge with the best of them and being a very strong presence in the run game. The 28-year-old made the Pro Bowl three straight years from 2016-18, and it sounds like he’s getting closer to finding his third NFL home.
Going year to year better than taking a LT deal offered by the Texans?
He’s a regular stuck up guy. Cancer for a team.
Might be one of the most over hyped guy in football. But if he is playing OLB behind Garrett that could be scary
He’s the Bryce Harper and Giancarlo Stanton of football the most overrated ppl around
You can make the argument that Clowney is bad (incorrect). You can make the argument that he has underwhelmed (correct). But the cancer argument is baseless.
They need a long term guy opposite Garrett. They should draft Greg Rousseau if he is available at 26 or wherever their pick is.
If he’s healthy he’s top 10 DE OLB in football, speed kills
If they do this then they have the 26 pick available in the 1st round to trade up and get one of the top shut down corner.
Go get Horn.
They should 100% go after LB Jamin Davis
Clowney the one play wonder
To me I would not touch him, but he could help the browns for 1 year if he can stay healthy, and I’m still drafting a DE, because he is not the long temp solution at that position. Watch the Browns give him 3 year deal.
This is why the Browns won’t ever be the team to beat in the AFC North, i.e. their front office can’t see through the media hype to objectively view a player’s real-world contribution(s). This means that they’ll consistently be paying more for less than their counterparts.
Your stuck on the browns front office from 3 years ago
paying more for less? they literally turned down paying a bunch of money to Clowney last year, Dupree and Watt this year. If Clowney gets a 3 year, $50 million deal, I’ll retract my statement. but that’s not going to happen.
Every single move that has been made since the new leadership came on has been widely praised. This isn’t 2017, my man.
4th team not third. Texans Seahawks titans and now wherever he plays next year.
Clowney has always been good against the run. If he’s motivated is the main question saw him in Seattle. There were times he was a beast If it’s a good low cost 8-10 million one year deal why not take a chance.
Listen I think the only reason why he came back to the Browns is that he was not going to get anything close to what the Browns offer on the market. 3 times we’ve dealt with him and he walked away. Listen he’s risk to reward is to high for me not when I can draft a DE in this draft. That meniscus tear bothers me, and your going to have to bring him alone slowly if you want him at the end of the season. Am I hating this deal, no if healthy he could help us a lot, lets just hope and pray for can stay healthy. Welcome to the Browns and Browns nation Jadeveon Clowney.
I’m guessing it’s a one year deal for about 7.5 million. Win win. Clooney gets a chance to up his value and the Browns get a year to see if McKinley is worth a long term. Kicks a need down the road for another year since they weren’t able to sign any of the DE long term that they wanted
Not sure why Cleveland keeps chasing after this clown. They’ve thrown numerous offers at him the past year or so and he just ignores them which is pretty disrespectful.
I couldn’t agree more. This guy was WAAAAAY overhyped in college and has continued to be since he came into the NFL. The Browns need a long-term pass-rushing solution opposite Myles Garrett and that’s not Clowney. Draft a pass rusher in the first round, get a corner in the second or third round, save the money this year and use it next year to help with an extension for Nick Chubb, a talent who has earned his keep and unlike Clowney, wasn’t overdrafted.
This is the last comment on Clowney, If the money is right I think the browns should kick the tires on him for one year.
and still draft a DE in case it don’t work out with Clowney. If we sign him he is now a Brown and I’m going to support him and I wish him well for us, once you dawn the brown and orange uniform you are a part of us, for as long as your here. Browns fans let’s get off bashing him and all our players they Browns now, and let’s start encouraging them to do his very best for us. I can trick my mind into thinking, hey he just had some bad luck when heathy he’s a decent player. I think I can fool myself for about 7 or 8 games.
They’ve made him fair offers and he just strings them along. Time to cut him off and move on.