Jadeveon Clowney‘s first season in Cleveland has been mostly a success, and the former first-overall pick will consider a long-term pact with the Browns when he hits free agency this upcoming offseason.
“I would, but we haven’t talked about anything right now,” Clowney said yesterday (via Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal). “Still finishing the season. Got a lot of guys on this team that’s on a one-year deal that might be heading back or don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, but right now, it’s just all about the next game and trying to get through the season and doing what I can do for the team right now.”
As Ulrich notes, the Browns had courted Clowney for a few years, and they finally landed the defender on a one-year deal worth up to $10MM back in April. Following a 2020 campaign that saw him finish with zero sacks in eight games with the Titans, Clowney has rehabilitated his pass-rushing image in 2021. In 12 games (12 starts) this season, the 28-year-old has collected five sacks, 15 QB hits, and 29 tackles.
While Clowney is still unsure of his future, the veteran can count on one thing: teammate Myles Garrett will definitely try to convince him to stay.
“I’ll try, but you never know,” Garrett. “Guys have their own agendas and want to be in certain places. I can’t help it if a guy wants to be in Miami, he likes the weather there more, he likes to be by the water.
Browns are a very strange team, but Clowney should stay at least one more year.
I think they are onto something, but just not sure what
The most overrated player in nfl history. He’s got .5 more sacks than Dante Fowler this year playing next to the most dominant DE in the league.
Yeh, sure he’ll try and hold up the Browns for $$$$millions for those 5 sacks and 15 QB hits…..Garrett convincing him to stay is very funny as he’ll end up playing for whichever team offers him the most $$$$$ MONEY!
This is such an old and lazy take. Clowney is top 10 in pass rush and run stop win rate among edges in the league… but sure go off guy
It’s too late to stop it now. They just have to double down on it since the facts stating otherwise are so obvious.
Most overrated in league HISTORY….sheesh.
His performance, or lack of on a team that can get after the QB pretty well….speaks volumes!
with how much he gets dumped on in these comment sections I dont get who is overrating him.
You’d be stupid to sign this guy to anything but a short term deal. “Mostly successful” tells you all you need to know, as playing next to Garrett should have been the path to about 12-15 sacks this year.
Yeah. 12-15 sacks a year is definitely average. No way a guy shouldn’t post less than that playing with a guy that rushes from the opposite side of a line. No way. 12-15 minimum. If Clowney were above average, he’d have 20 sacks playing with Garrett just like all the edge rushers that played with Garrett prior. What an absolute overrated scrub. /s
Browns biggest issue as has been for many years is the QB. Baker just ain’t it. Look at OBJ balling in LA with Stafford. He’s been there a month didn’t know the teammates, didn’t know the playbook and has settled in great. Whereas Baker and OBJ never clicked.
Browns should be looking at Russ, Watson or even Carr