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Browns Pull NFL Proposal to Trade Draft Picks Five Years Out

The retreat signals firm resistance to extending the NFL's three-year limit on trading future draft picks.

Overview

  • The Browns, which withdrew the measure Monday per NFL Network, left the league’s three-year cap on future pick trades in place.
  • Rams coach Sean McVay said there was a zero percent chance of passage and noted the Competition Committee was 11-0 against the change.
  • The measure was slated for an owners’ vote at the league meeting in Phoenix that requires 24 of 32 approvals, but Cleveland pulled it and could revisit the idea later.
  • Cleveland’s filing argued a five-year window would boost roster flexibility, enable more creative deals, increase the liquidity of draft capital, and better match contract and salary-cap cycles.
  • Media tied the idea to potential blockbuster trades such as talk around star pass rusher Myles Garrett, which team officials rejected as they said they were not trading him.