Browns Trade Pitch Flips DTR, Sends Former No. 1 Overall QB to the Day 2 Pick.
Following the Carolina Panthers’ decision to bench former No. 1 overall pick Bryce Young, the Cleveland Browns now have a chance to start fresh at quarterback. On Monday, September 16, only two games into Young’s second NFL season, Carolina revealed the startling news.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Network stated via X, “Sources: The #Panthers are benching former No. 1 overall pick Bryce Young and starting Andy Dalton beginning this week.” “Bryce is our quarterback, coach Dave Canales has emphasized time and time again. But Canales made the decision to alter as the season was rapidly coming to an end. Young looks to have deteriorated in Year 2, and the head coach and second-year quarterback no longer have faith in one other. As a result, the Panthers are practically forced to deal Young.
Young was benched by Carolina before being traded, effectively nuking his trade value. This is fantastic news for Cleveland, a team that should be searching for a young center given all of Deshaun Watson’s problems since joining the team in 2022. Even still, Young will be expensive on the trade market due to his status as a former No. 1 pick. Dorian Thompson-Robinson, a second-year quarterback that the Browns drafted in the fifth round the same year that Carolina selected Young in the first, gives them the ability to present a strong offer.
icant experience, making eight appearances and three starts (1-2) in his first season in 2023. Cleveland will hold three sixth-round picks, a seventh-round pick, and all of its own picks in rounds 1-4 in the following year’s draft. It might be sufficient to package Thompson-Robinson with a third- or second-round pick in 2025 in addition to one of those sixth-round picks to convince Young to join Cleveland.
