The Browns are doing right by Joe Thomas. The offensive tackle has been given a pay bump for the current year as well as next season, as detailed by ESPN.com’s Field Yates. 
Thomas has been given $3MM in new money between 2017 and 2018, including a $1.5MM roster bonus that was paid out to him earlier this week. The other $1.5MM comes from a pay raise for next year. With that extra cash for ’18, Thomas is slated to make $13.5MM, giving him the highest salary of any offensive lineman in the league next year.
The Browns didn’t necessarily have to give Thomas the pay bump since he is already signed through next year. It’s possible that the bonus is to help talk Thomas out of retirement – he said over the summer that he was thinking about hanging ’em up after this season. It could also just be a goodwill gesture towards for Cleveland’s longest-tenured player.
Remarkably, Thomas has made the Pro Bowl in all ten of his professional seasons. He won’t be going to the Pro Bowl this year, however, after a triceps injury shut him down after seven games. Up until that injury, Thomas had logged 10,363 straight snaps on the field.
That’s why the Browns win 3 games a year. They just gave a guy who is on IR an extension
It’s CLEARLY a sign of goodwill by the Browns or a way to coax him out of retirement…if you legitimately think that they’re giving him more money just for fun then I really don’t know what to tell you (also, it’s not an extension; it’s just adding new money without any more years of control)
Also who has never gotten injured in his career. If you think making one of the best o-linemen of all time happier is a bad move, then I just don’t even know man
radzyfsu, Before this injury,
Since selected No. 3 overall in 2007, Joe Thomas has made the Pro Bowl every season he’s been in the league and has never missed a game in 11 seasons.
Browns are trying to entice him not to retire, by giving him a little more money next year (the last year of an eight-year, $92 million contract)
Grand scheme of things, this doesn’t change anything. Cleveland hoards cap space and never use it (common complaint by their fans) They have $62M cap space 2017, $54M 2018 and $91M in 2019 (Source: link to overthecap.com)
He’s 32 (33 in December) 34 next year.
He’s the fifth player ever to be named to 10 consecutive Pro-Bowls games, joining Hall of Famers Merlin Olsen, Mel Renfro, Barry Sanders, and Lawrence Taylor. He’s a surefire HOFer still producing at All-Pro level. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You don’t find player of his caliber, on the street and a worthy gamble by Cleveland, to convince him to return next year, even after landing on the IR with his triceps injury. He’s one of the NFL’s most consistent and best players.
It’s a shame he’s been wasted in Cleveland.
Best personnel move they have made in years….
Question: If the coaching staff and front office remain in place next season, how many games will they win?
The way their division seems to be falling apart around them? Could be an upset in the AFC North next year…
Zero. Because the Front office will screw up the Draft and Free Agency like they do every year. By Drafting Potential over Production. And by Shopping the Bargain I have not played very much Bin in Free Agency. At least on Offense. They have some serviceable players on defense but they also hold guys out who are not really hurt that bad. They might win Zero Games this year. Because they have No LT, Center or RT. And No Legitimate Receiving Threat other then Duke Johnson. They also do not have a FIeld Goal Kicker who is consistent. They need to run the ball more then they throw. But when they get into scoring range they either miss a field goal, throw an interception or fumble it away or get stupid penalties. Hue needs to Simplify the offense get them good at maybe 5 run plays and 10 pass plays and run a hurry up style offense. The Bills when they had Jim Kelly and the K-Gun ran maybe 25 plays.
If you have a play that works run it until the defense stops you.
The Front office needs to go period. Either the front office does not listen to the Scouts, or the Scouts are idiots too. I think you need to get rid of everyone. Sashi, Depodesto, and Grigson.
The Front office plan to Draft Potential over Production has not worked period. The Browns could have Goff, Wentz, or Watson at QB, Ezekial Elliott, or Kareem Hunt at RB for instance. Joey Bosa at DE. Pat Elflein at Center. just to name a few. a few weeks ago it listed guys the Browns should try to trade for whose contract was up at the end of the season and most of them they should have drafted in the 1st place. Seriously though since 1999 if the Browns had listened say to me or my older Brother they would have won a Super Bowl by now. How many guys did they pass up on that they obviously should have taken. They could have had guys like Polamalu, Ngata, Roethlisberger, Based on the Rankings even this past draft Kizer was not in their top three. It was Trubisky who would have been a bad pick because he folds in the clutch and blew two games the Bears easily could have won. The other game the Defense won with 2 scores, and the Running of Jordan Howard. Mahomes was rated 2nd he is sitting behind Alex Smith you wonder no matter how well Smith Plays this year is he gone next season. Then the guy they obviously should have taken Deshaun Watson. They can lie and say they had Watson 2nd or a Reporter like Mary Cay Cabot might lie and say that. But earlier intel from Cabot herself says that Watson was 3rd.
Clearly the Browns ownership is colluding against winning.
The Browns owner has a thing for letting people go, not keeping them.
Now you screw yourself up if you want to try to Trade Joe Thomas in the offseason or screw yourself up if he decides to retire or can’t come back from this Injury. That is why a Dumbass Lawyer who knows nothing about Football and a Baseball Analytics guy should not have the Final say over the Roster.