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Regardless of who's available or what the WR room contract situation is, WR is just not a position valued in this team's team building, nor is it used heavily in Stefanski's offense..
But if you want to use OBJ and Landry contracts as a reason to draft a WR, I still don't see it... OBJ is locked up for two more years after this year, at a extremely reasonable rate for a premium WR (his cap hit will be ranked 15th amongst WRs next year) and Landry only has one more year after this year... If the Browns are trying to remain competitive within the next couple years, why would they let go two of their better players? I understand the economic portion of getting similar production out of a WR at a lower rate, but OBJ is already valuable in his current situation, and Landry only has one more year... The Browns WR situation behind them (Hodge, Higgins and DPJ all making near minimum salaries) also allows for a top-heavy room... If anything, I see them as restructure candidates more so than release/trade candidates...
If you want to talk contractual situations past 2021 at least OBJ and Landry are under contract... This is who's under contract on the DL and DB side past 2021:
Myles Garrett
Jordan Elliott
Denzel Ward
Troy Hill
Greedy Williams
John Johnson III
Grant Delpit
Sheldrick Redwine
If you're using the contractual commitment side of things, DL needs to be hit hard and hit early and more so than WR...
Say the scenario happens where one of OBJ or Landry is let go.. We already saw what the offense would look like should that happen last year... Even without OBJ, the Browns were still one of the more productive offenses in the league and fared just fine with a group of Landry/Higgins/DPJ/Hodge... That doesn't mean that group doesn't need upgraded, it just means it doesn't need upgraded in the 1st or 2nd round...
Higgins has been as productive and as effective of a WR in the whole league when called upon... His contract the last two years is more so indicative of the WR market and the Browns conscientous decisions to not overly invest in Landry and OBJ because of their cap hits and because WR is not a premium analytical position...
If this draft is deep at WR, that's even more of a reason to wait and reap the rewards in the middle rounds when they can afford to take a WR, not early on...
But if you want to use OBJ and Landry contracts as a reason to draft a WR, I still don't see it... OBJ is locked up for two more years after this year, at a extremely reasonable rate for a premium WR (his cap hit will be ranked 15th amongst WRs next year) and Landry only has one more year after this year... If the Browns are trying to remain competitive within the next couple years, why would they let go two of their better players? I understand the economic portion of getting similar production out of a WR at a lower rate, but OBJ is already valuable in his current situation, and Landry only has one more year... The Browns WR situation behind them (Hodge, Higgins and DPJ all making near minimum salaries) also allows for a top-heavy room... If anything, I see them as restructure candidates more so than release/trade candidates...
If you want to talk contractual situations past 2021 at least OBJ and Landry are under contract... This is who's under contract on the DL and DB side past 2021:
Myles Garrett
Jordan Elliott
Denzel Ward
Troy Hill
Greedy Williams
John Johnson III
Grant Delpit
Sheldrick Redwine
If you're using the contractual commitment side of things, DL needs to be hit hard and hit early and more so than WR...
Say the scenario happens where one of OBJ or Landry is let go.. We already saw what the offense would look like should that happen last year... Even without OBJ, the Browns were still one of the more productive offenses in the league and fared just fine with a group of Landry/Higgins/DPJ/Hodge... That doesn't mean that group doesn't need upgraded, it just means it doesn't need upgraded in the 1st or 2nd round...
Higgins has been as productive and as effective of a WR in the whole league when called upon... His contract the last two years is more so indicative of the WR market and the Browns conscientous decisions to not overly invest in Landry and OBJ because of their cap hits and because WR is not a premium analytical position...
If this draft is deep at WR, that's even more of a reason to wait and reap the rewards in the middle rounds when they can afford to take a WR, not early on...