{"id":716984,"date":"2026-06-05T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:08:09","slug":"how-nfl-offseasons-biggest-moves-could-backfire-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716984\/","title":{"rendered":"How NFL Offseason&#8217;s Biggest Moves Could Backfire in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Details: The Rams traded edge Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick, a 2028 second-round pick and a 2029 third-round pick to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for Garrett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Presumed Rationale: The Rams are going all-in one more time, likely with the impression that 38-year-old reigning MVP quarterback Matthew Stafford will soon hit a wall and\/or walk away. Davante Adams is 33 and it&#8217;ll soon become hard to pay everyone, so this is their declaration that it&#8217;s now or never for another trophy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Potential Backfire: Garrett is on the wrong side of 30 now, and it&#8217;s entirely possible the Browns sold at the highest point with a potential peak in 2025. Verse was the Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2024 and made the Pro Bowl as a sophomore. The gap between the two could close considerably in 2026, and Verse likely won&#8217;t cost Cleveland much until 2028. Garrett also won&#8217;t come cheap over time, even with the Browns absorbing a lot of the costs early on. Throw in all that lost draft capital and this basically backfires if the Rams don&#8217;t win the Super Bowl in the next two or three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Details: The Rams traded edge Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick, a 2028 second-round pick and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-716984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}