The Browns’ surprise trade of Myles Garrett set off all kinds of speculation about what kind of roster shakeup might follow in Cleveland. Grant Delpit’s name got pulled into that conversation quickly enough, especially with the safety in the final year of his three-year, $36 million contract and absent from team drills during OTAs and minicamp even though he was around.
But the latest word suggests the Browns are looking in the opposite direction.
Team insider Mary Kay Cabot said Cleveland wants to keep Delpit for the long haul and is aiming to work out an extension before the season begins.
"This is a matter of when they do an extension not if," Cabot said on the Orange and Brown Talk podcast. "They think very highly of him, they stuck by him through rupturing his Achilles as a rookie and you know, he’s played really, really good ball for them.
And I still think he’s got plenty of years left in the tank, and I think they will reflect that. He will get paid, maybe even before the season, maybe before training camp."
That would make plenty of sense for a Browns defense that still leans on Delpit in a big way. He matters in coverage, he matters against the run, and he gives the unit a veteran presence at a time when the defense is adjusting to a new coordinator in Mike Rutenberg after the Jim Schwartz era.
There was at least a path to the Browns moving on. Safeties usually don’t command premium money, and Cleveland already has Ronnie Hickman on a bargain deal while also adding Emmanuel McNeil-Warren in the draft. From a cold roster-building standpoint, Delpit could have been viewed as a movable piece.
But the math and the football both work against that idea. Delpit’s contract carries four void years, which means a trade would still leave Cleveland with dead money this year and next. And with the market for veteran safeties rarely bringing much back, the Browns likely wouldn’t get a meaningful return anyway.
Delpit’s value goes beyond the contract. He’s one of the team’s longest-tenured players, and that matters when a roster is trying to stay steady while shifting younger. Those kinds of veterans help hold the room together, even if their impact doesn’t always jump off the stat sheet.
For now, the sense coming out of Cleveland is simple: there’s no need to force a move just to make one. Delpit hasn’t shown any sign he wants out, and the Browns don’t appear eager to let him go.
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