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If he's motivated, he'll be a good depth pickup for some team further on. He was a cap acsualty - $11M with no dead money, and I think they have guys coming back from injury and a Covid absence.

When he wants to play, he's good. But the Jets are set at the position, and I don't think he'd play for the vet minimum.

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Of all the DTs we’ve had in the last fifteen years, he was IMO the most promising.  Those first two years he was completely dominant, and the sky was the limit.  When they started misusing him as a LB, his numbers started to fall off but it just showed that he was the most versatile DL we had.  But since then, everything just nosedived, and while hes been ok since then, it’s not even close to what he was.

What happened?  Well, the usual suspects are motivation (a couple years with Mo didn’t help), injury (?) and well, PED related cycles.

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From what I understand Sheldon played pretty well for the Browns, and he made himself alot of money.

How many teams has Suh played for?  DT is a position you save cap space for and fill if you need one to be make the playoffs.

Look at our favorite team, the Jets.  They drafted DTs for 15 years, only to let them go or give one a disasterous contract.  When the Jets are going to be good, they are going to need to sign Q, with Sheldon, Suh and other players on the market.

We still can't block anyone on the OL.

So you should draft OL, use the FT and early extensions to keep them around, and sign a DT when you need one to complete the team.  

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25 minutes ago, jetstream23 said:

Give the guy a break.  I mean who doesn't drive around at 80 mph in a 40 zone with a gun under the front seat, a kid in the back and reeking of marijuana?  Amirite?

 

80??? What do you think he is some kind of granny on the way to Bingo night? Throw some respekt on this kid's name!

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2535585-sheldon-richardson-arrested-after-going-143-mph-latest-details-on-jets-dt

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https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-release-dt-sheldon-richardson-save-11-million-in-cap-space

 

Few roster moves are made without a corresponding action. Browns fans learned that lesson Friday.

Two days after signing edge rusher Jadeveon Clowney, the Browns released defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson. The team announced the move Friday afternoon.

Richardson arrived in Cleveland in 2019 as part of former general manager John Dorsey's spending spree and instantly filled a need for the Browns on the interior. The former first-round pick of the Jets chose Cleveland to establish a home after becoming somewhat of a football nomad in recent years, and he certainly followed through when it came to availability and productivity. Richardson appeared in all 32 regular-season games in two seasons with the Browns, recording 78 tackles (nine for loss), 7.5 sacks, seven passes defensed and four forced fumbles.

A boisterous personality in the locker room who backs it up on the field, the 30-year-old Richardson was reliably effective and earned his compensation, but as is often the case in the offseason, that premium became a bit too rich for the Browns after signing Clowney. Cutting Richardson saves the Browns $11 million in cap space, per Over The Cap, helping create some breathing room for the Browns after they signed Clowney to a one-year deal that can pay him up to $10 million but includes four void years to spread his cap number between 2021 and 2022. Because of those void years, Clowney's cap number for 2021 is just $3.87 million, less than a third of Richardson's cap number of $12.6 million.

With this considered, releasing Richardson wasn't entirely necessary. Cleveland still could have carried his contract and remained under the cap at a fairly comfortable margin.

But there is an advantage to be had with existing cap space when looking ahead. The Browns are approaching future offseasons in which they'll need to find cap space to re-sign Baker Mayfield, Nick Chubb and Denzel Ward. Carrying a healthy amount of cap space to the end of 2021 will produce a useful rollover number into 2022, when the cap is expected to jump significantly at just the right time for the Browns to spend in order to keep their own.

There's also the valuable playing time to be gained by 2020 third-rounder Jordan Elliott, who flashed in the few opportunities he had while entrenched behind Richardson and Larry Ogunjobi (who left for Cincinnati in March). With the release of Richardson, Cleveland will roll out a new defensive interior featuring free-agent addition Malik Jackson and Elliott, and stands to add more talent at the position in the draft.

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