Overview
- Earlier this month Cleveland sent two-time Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to Los Angeles for 25-year-old Jared Verse plus a 2027 first-round pick, a 2028 second-round pick and a 2029 third-round pick.
- Garrett has publicly embraced the Rams’ locker-room culture, and he remains under a contract that runs through 2030 with a four-year, $160 million extension set to begin in 2027.
- Verse joins the Browns as a cost-controlled, foundational edge rusher who told his former Rams teammates to focus on beating the Seattle Seahawks before he left.
- League executives and scouts broadly judged the package valuable for Cleveland, equating the return to roughly three first-round picks and noting the trade reduced Cleveland’s long-term guaranteed exposure to Garrett’s contract.
- Analysts warn the Rams’ aggression carries risk because Los Angeles surrendered future draft capital and must produce near-term playoff success to justify the deal, and Aaron Donald’s possible return to play remains an open subplot tied to that win-now push.