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Cleveland Browns defensive end Jared Verse speaks to the media after the NFL football team’s practice, Wednesday in Berea, Ohio. (David Richard\/AP Photo)<\/p>\nBEREA, Ohio \u2014 Anyone expecting Jared Verse to be the next Myles Garrett after Monday\u2019s blockbuster trade between the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams are already going to be disappointed.<\/p>\n
For one, Verse can\u2019t literally step into Garrett\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n
\u201cMyles he\u2019s a size 13, Nikes, whatever they are. I\u2019m a size 13\u00bd, size 14 Jordans. I\u2019m not here to fill his shoes. I\u2019m here to bring my own,\u201d the 2024 first-round out of FSU said Wednesday after taking part in his first practice with the Browns.<\/p>\n
Verse said he has watched plenty of film of Garrett and keyed in on a couple of things he does. But he has taken some of the technical moves in Garrett\u2019s game and tried to make them his own.<\/p>\n
Verse arrived in Cleveland on Tuesday afternoon and took his physical. He took part in individual and position drills on Wednesday as the Browns conducted their eighth voluntary organized team activity practice.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t much time during the offseason program to bring Verse up to speed. The Browns have two more OTA sessions on Thursday and Friday before next week\u2019s three-day mandatory minicamp wraps up everything until training camp begins in late July.<\/p>\n
Verse is going from the Rams\u2019 3-4 scheme and playing outside linebacker to the Browns\u2019 4-3 base and lining up at defensive end, which he did at Florida State. Coach Todd Monken said moving back to a 4-3 should be easier.<\/p>\n
Verse had 4\u00bd sacks en route to being the AP Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2024. He had 7\u00bd sacks last season, along with three forced fumbles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that this will allow him to do one thing and that is run off the ball, run into a dark room and disrupt. I mean, he\u2019s gonna fit us like a glove,\u201d Monken said. \u201cI see his track ascending. I just see a world of upside by the way he\u2019s wired.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Browns got Verse and three draft picks \u2014 a 2027 first-rounder, a second-round pick in 2028 and 2029 third-round selection \u2014 for Garrett, who set the NFL single-season record in sacks last year with 23.\u00a0Browns general manager Andrew Berry\u00a0said on Tuesday that any trade involving Garrett had to include a young premium player on a team-friendly contract<\/p>\n
Verse, the 19th overall pick in the 2024 draft, is on the third year of his rookie contract. The Browns can exercise the fifth-year option on Verse\u2019s contract next year or negotiate a long-term extension.<\/p>\n
Verse was disappointed for a couple of hours when he was informed about the trade, until he learned that he was the key piece in the blockbuster deal that allowed the Browns to trade the two-time AP Defensive Player of the Year to the Rams.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo know that this wasn\u2019t going to go through if I wasn\u2019t a part of it, it\u2019s good to know that,\u201d Verse said. \u201cThat was probably the biggest fact that brought some sunshine into this whole situation for me, I saw that, I was like, \u2018Yeah, they want me.\u2019 It was cool to know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cleveland Browns defensive end Jared Verse speaks to the media after the NFL football team’s practice, Wednesday in Berea, Ohio. (David Richard\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n
Defensive end Alex Wright thought the news of Garrett\u2019s trade was fake until he started getting news notifications on his phone.<\/p>\n
Wright, who was sitting on his back patio of his house Monday afternoon, then had the same response of many Browns\u2019 fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like, \u2018yeah, let me go get a drink right quick,\u2019\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n
About the only one who wasn\u2019t fazed by the trade news was linebacker Carson Schwesinger, who was on the golf course at the Browns Foundation tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was kind of trying to figure out how to fix my slice the whole time. That was at the forefront of my mind. Every hole it was there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Verse spent plenty of time with Wright as the two worked on pass rush moves. Even though he is still getting up to speed, Verse has seen enough early signs to think he can fit right in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an attacking front. That\u2019s kind of my style. I\u2019ll be attacking. I want to get to it. I want to have a defined situation, just be able to do my thing every time without having to think too much or without having to slow down and read keys,\u201d Verse said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEREA, Ohio \u2014 Anyone expecting Jared Verse to be the next Myles Garrett after Monday\u2019s blockbuster trade between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[111,28,3731,76046,110,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-297058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-college-sports","tag-florida","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-social-sports","tag-sports","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}