Outside Linebacker · Cleveland Browns

Jared Verse

No. 8 · 3rd season

Verse's last words to the Rams: beat Seattle

Getting traded means packing your locker and finding something to say on the way out. Jared Verse found something worth saying.

Verse spent time with the Los Angeles Rams before Cleveland came calling. He was a linebacker building a name for himself on that defense, the kind of player teammates notice. Then the deal happened, and suddenly he was someone else's.

When he sat down with Cleveland Browns media to talk through the move, he let slip what his final message to the Rams had been: he wanted them to handle the Seattle Seahawks. Not a goodbye speech. Not a tribute to the organization. Just a game he still wanted his old teammates to win.

That one detail says something. He's gone, but he's not detached. The trade was business; the loyalty is still his own.

Now he brings that same energy to Cleveland — which, depending on how the rest of the schedule plays out, might eventually put him on a collision course with the team he just left rooting for.

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