CLEVELAND, Ohio (92.3 The Fan) – Owners, grab your checkbooks.
The new NFL league year will move forward uninterrupted.
The league informed teams and agents Sunday evening that it will be business as usual this week – minus travel – as a global pandemic continues to shutter businesses across the country.
The ‘legal tampering’ window opens Monday at noon where teams can officially negotiate and come to agreement on contracts with free agents, but they cannot be signed until the league year officially begins Wednesday at 4 p.m. eastern.
New Brows executive vice president of football operations and general manager Andrew Berry inherited a $31.8 million in salary cap carryover from 2019 which should give him an estimated $65 million or more in total room to work with.
Berry has pledged to aggressively add talent to a franchise that hasn’t had a winning season in 12 years and is on their fifth head coach and fifth top football executive in seven.
After taking the league – and media – by storm last offseason with a multitude of moves including the Odell Beckham Jr. blockbuster trade, the Browns were one of the biggest flops and disappointments, finishing 6-10 and out of the playoffs for a 17th straight season in 2019.
Berry plans to use a mixture of trades, free agent signings and the draft to make the roster fit the image he envisions will lead the Browns back to the playoffs.
Sunday morning the NFL and NFLPA announced that players had ratified a new collective bargaining agreement paving the way for labor peace through 2030.
