The three-year, July 30 -- Grant Delpit spent his entire 2020 NFL season on injured reserve with a torn Achilles, having never played a professional snap. On Wednesday, the Cleveland Browns gave him $35 million in guaranteed money.

the Browns are not tanking, not deliberately rebuilding, and not treating their defensive backfield as a place to absorb losses while the roster reshapes elsewhere.

Everything around that secondary still has to be figured out.

Cleveland sent Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams in June, the man who set the all-time NFL single-season sack record with 23 in 2025, the player whose presence changed the arithmetic of every offense the Browns faced. The months-long negotiation behind that trade reshaped Cleveland...