The Cleveland Browns have come to grips with the probability that Odell Beckham has performed his final snap for the group. However we’re a number of days faraway from when that turned readily obvious on Tuesday and he is nonetheless a member of the Browns.

Why do not they only launch him?

Effectively, the straightforward reply is, then he will get his method. Beckham does not need to be in Cleveland anymore with Baker Mayfield, and by permitting himself to develop into a distraction (I worded that rigorously for a cause), he has angled for a launch. He’d very seemingly clear waivers as a result of no contending workforce has the cap house to deliver him on, and no non-contender with the cap house would declare him simply to undergo the embarrassment of him declining to play for them. So then he’d be a free agent and be capable to select his subsequent vacation spot within the second half of the season.

We all know NFL groups are all about precedent. GM Andrew Berry cannot probably need to let OBJ dictate phrases right here. Berry has been in session with Beckham’s illustration, and the Browns try to determine a approach to finish this in a method that is helpful to the workforce and with the least quantity of distractions.

That is probably not doable. Whereas Beckham could not have posted the video his father did, he is let it sit on the market. He hasn’t talked to Mayfield. His camp has let it’s recognized he is prepared to observe and play, which might take away the Browns’ means to hit him with a suspension or conduct-detrimental fines. It corners the Browns into releasing him or paying him every week to be inactive.

The Browns had been enthusiastic about shifting Beckham however did not need to store him for, properly, concern of this precise factor taking place. On Tuesday they took calls from groups, together with the Saints, however nobody needed to commerce for his remaining contract. Plus, I am positive groups figured he’d be freed from Cleveland quickly sufficient and so they might get him for less expensive.

A launch would assist relieve the Browns of a number of the cash owed to Beckham, in addition to present a clear slate to the workforce for the second half of the season. However it might additionally see Beckham wind up on a workforce Cleveland is competing towards for a playoff spot.

If this will get contentious, the Browns might maintain on to Beckham, make him inactive and pay him to remain away. If everybody has a kumbaya, Beckham and the Browns might attain a monetary settlement that frees him of Cleveland and permits him to signal elsewhere for the rest of the season.