The Cleveland Browns didn’t alter Myles Garrett’s contract to orchestrate a trade involving the star pass-rusher, according to general manager Andrew Berry.
“If we wanted to trade Myles, we wouldn’t have needed to make a contract adjustment,” Berry said Sunday at the NFL’s annual league meetings in Phoenix, according to ESPN’s Daniel Oyefusi. “So, it doesn’t have anything to do with that.”
The Browns reportedly moved back Garrett’s option date to seven days before the start of the regular season in each of the remaining years on his deal. That was among multiple changes, specifically in how those options will be paid out, that would hypothetically make a post-June 1 trade more attractive to the Browns.