It’s no secret the Cleveland Browns need a lot of help on both sides of the ball.
Most believe they need to find a franchise quarterback, but with Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza likely going No. 1 overall to the Las Vegas Raiders in April, that leaves the Browns with slim pickings in terms of the signal-callers after Mendoza.
Alabama’s Ty Simpson is considered the next-best QB in the draft, but taking him sixth overall is too much of a reach for a franchise that has a lot of other holes to fill.
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There are a few viable options via the trade route — Indianapolis’s Anthony Richardson, San Francisco’s Mac Jones, Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa, Arizona’s Kyler Murray — and Green Bay’s Malik Willis is arguably the best free-agent QB available.
But none fit that young, face-of-the-franchise type player the team is looking for, except for Richardson, who’s just 23, which is why Cleveland may be forced to roll with Shedeur Sanders for a full season before looking for another QB in the 2027 draft.
If that happens, it’s believed the Browns will look to surround Sanders with better talent around him — and SB Nation’s Jared Mueller recently revealed they made a trade call to the Cardinals about trying to dynamic young WR Marvin Harrison Jr.
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“I may have called WR Marvin Harrison ‘the Trent Richardson of receivers’ to a few film and scout guys I trust… and didn’t get much push back…,” Mueller wrote. “He’s also a player (general manager Andrew) Berry has at least touched base on acquiring to help Cleveland’s issues at the position.
“Many wonder if he has the physical traits to be the dominant player he was at Ohio State, with almost zero certainty given his lack of pre-draft testing. There are a lot of questions about his film so far in the NFL, with the ‘is it the team or the player or both?’ question lingering.”
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According to Mueller, Harrison Jr. isn’t the only top-tier receiver the Browns have called about either.
He also disclosed that Cleveland tried to acquire New Orleans Saints WR Chris Olave at the trade deadline back in November, and he suggested the team may not have given up on trying to acquire him either.
“[Berry is] also considered persistent and resilient in that he’ll revisit trade ideas from the previous trade deadline just a few months later to see if they can happen again,” Mueller added. “WR Chris Olave is an example of that and is back on the Browns trade radar.”
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