3 Bills the Cleveland Browns should look at in free agency
By Chad Porto
DT Harrison Phillips – 2021 PFF 77.4
Most of the guys we’ve reviewed so far from the Titans and Buccaneers are guys that could help the Browns. They’re more “of all the guys, these guys make the most sense” type of picks, not necessarily guys the team should prioritize. After all, we’re just looking at those eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs first, we have a lot of other guys to take a peek at.
This is where the theory and ideology of the list diverge. The Buffalo Bills have roughly $2 million dollars in cap space for 2022 and a whole need to rework their entire offense. Turns out having Cole Beasley as your second-best play-maker is a bad idea. That means they’re going to have to prioritize who stays and who goes, and the Cleveland Browns should be hyper-focused on that.
With Harrison Phillips an unrestricted free agent, and two really good years of football so far with Buffalo, he should be high on the Browns list of names to go after, regardless of anything else. He’s young, only 26, on a team that will likely not be able to re-sign him if he prices himself out of their budget, and at a position of need for Cleveland.
Phillips would fit right in with what the Browns need in 2022.