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Browns Film Breakdown

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Browns reach 4-year, $56.75M deal with TE David Njoku

Browns Film Breakdown

Bleav

Sports, Football, Cleveland, Nfl Draft, Browns, Nfl Team, Nfl

4.8553 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Jake is joined by Browns Digest's Pete Smith where the two discuss the Browns' decision to make TE David Njoku a part of their future with a new 4-year, $56.75M deal with 28 million guaranteed. The two break down the decision to pay Njoku now instead of later, his market among the league's tight ends, his growth as a player, and the risk this does still carry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, John, Astana Vista, baby!

0:06.5

Fartz out!

0:10.7

Hi, guys, welcome into the OBR film breakdown.

0:12.9

This is sort of an emergency episode.

0:14.8

We are going to talk about the David and Joku four-year extension that we just heard announced worth 56.75 million, including

0:23.6

28 million guaranteed. There are a ton of details that still get announced on these things,

0:29.4

the way the Browns maybe protect themselves in terms of some outs after maybe it's a two-year deal

0:34.3

with moving target numbers. There's post-June 1st cap hits, all that stuff.

0:39.6

So there's a lot to learn here.

0:40.9

We just know what the numbers are right now.

0:43.0

But lucky enough to be joined by Pete Smith of Brown's Digest,

0:46.0

S.I, who took some time here on a Friday 530 window.

0:49.7

Pete, thanks for joining, man.

0:51.6

Yeah, no problem.

0:53.3

Well, let's talk about it. What's your immediate reaction to this deal? And then we'll sort of dig in on the granular stuff too. Well, the number doesn't. The only thing that surprises me about the deal is the length. I thought they were going to go three years because I thought it was going to sort of fit in this pocket they have with Nick Chubb, Amari Cooper and Jonathan, and what's his face, the safety.

1:15.0

John Johnson, yeah.

1:16.0

Yeah, John Johnson.

1:17.3

Because that's the deal they went with for all those guys.

1:20.1

Like they reserved the five-year deals for Watson and Garrett and Ward.

1:25.6

So this four-year structure is sort of interesting, but the money doesn't surprise me.

1:30.4

I thought throughout this season he was going to get in the ballpark of $15 million per year.

1:36.0

It's just where the position is going.

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