The Cleveland Browns have painted themselves into a corner with the salary cap

Back in 2020, the Cleveland Browns finished 11-5 and won a playoff game despite having the most unused cap space in the NFL. A few short years later, they are staring at a salary cap cliff of their own making, and few options to actually wrap their pocketbooks around it.

Cheap, young talent isn’t found on Cleveland Browns roster

The Browns are almost completely devoid of young talent playing on rookie contracts thanks to a series of trades in 2022 and 2023.

First, the Browns put all their chips in the middle of the table in 2022 when they traded for Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson. Cleveland

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