{"id":682146,"date":"2026-06-03T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682146\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:28:08","slug":"browns-and-rams-push-for-five-year-window-to-trade-draft-picks-now-makes-more-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682146\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns&#8217; (and Rams&#8217;) push for five-year window to trade draft picks now makes more sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late February, the Browns proposed extending the window for trading future draft picks <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/browns-propose-expanding-limit-for-trading-draft-picks-from-three-years-to-five\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">from three years to five<\/a>. In March, the Rams made it clear that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/rams-president-kevin-demoff-supports-proposal-to-expand-trading-of-draft-picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">they supported the proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Browns ultimately withdrew the proposal (which means they knew it wouldn\u2019t get 24 \u201cyes\u201d votes), the recent trade of Myles Garrett from the Browns to the Rams adds more context to the effort.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear that the trade was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/les-snead-spent-months-of-the-offseason-trying-to-get-the-browns-to-trade-myles-garrett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">months in the making<\/a>. The deal, as done, takes full advantage of the current three-year limit (the picks come from 2027, 2028, and 2029). If the Browns\u2019 proposal had been adopted, would the Rams have added more picks beyond 2029? Could it have allowed the Rams to keep two-time Pro Bowler Jared Verse?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what would have happened if the five-year proposal had been adopted, the Garrett trade further explains why both teams wanted to do it. It\u2019s entirely possible that, on Monday, the Browns\u2019 proposal would have been utilized by both teams, in connection with the Garrett trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In late February, the Browns proposed extending the window for trading future draft picks from three years to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-682146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}