{"id":1413,"date":"2024-11-05T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2024-11-05T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:11:37","slug":"breaking-browns-polarizing-first-round-pick-gets-bad-news-on-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Browns Polarizing First-Round Pick Gets Bad News on Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Benched-Wills.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Benched-Wills.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Benched-Wills.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Benched-Wills.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Browns Polarizing First-Round Pick Gets Bad News on Future\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns will continue to roll with Dawand Jones at left tackle, which is bad news for Jedrick Wills Jr. moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>The former first-round pick has faced challenges this season, including injuries. Now fully healthy, the Browns have opted to start Jones at left tackle over Wills, marking the first time Wills has not started a game when available.<\/p>\n<p>Browns coach Kevin Stefanski confirmed that Jones will continue to start at left tackle moving forward, relegating Wills \u2014 a first-round pick in 2020 \u2014 to a backup role. Stefanski tried to downplay the decision while speaking to the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019m not trying to say anything about him,\u201d Stefanski said on Monday. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to put Dawand out there and let him get better. Jed\u2019s still a player that we believe in and right now he\u2019s got to be ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Jedrick Wills Could be Moved at Trade Deadline<\/h2>\n<p>Wills is in a tough spot moving forward. He\u2019s in the fifth and final year of his rookie deal, which will pay him $14.175 million. But instead of cashing in on a big second contract, Wills may be looking\u00a0for another team next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all part of football,\u201d Stefanski said. \u201cYou get injured sometimes, and sometimes you go in as a backup, sometimes you\u2019re a starter. That\u2019s just how this game goes. He\u2019s somebody that has played a lot of football for us. We\u2019ve played and won with him. We have confidence in him. But in this case, he\u2019s the swing tackle and he has to be ready to go in at a moment\u2019s notice, and he will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a chance another team could be willing to take a shot on Wills at the trade deadline on November 5. The Browns may be able to recoup some value and a team in need of a tackle would get a motivated player with 57 career starts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Browns OT Dawand Jones Draws Positive Review After Start<\/h2>\n<p>Jones is a massive man, at 6 feet 8 inches and 375 pounds. He was likely even heavier at the start of the year, but Jones has impressed his teammates with his focus on improving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen him put in a lot of work, like extra cardio, extra conditioning, and I would say it\u2019s just always the same amount, a hundred percent,\u201d center Ethan Pocic said. \u201cSo it\u2019s good to see that and I think he\u2019s getting in more of a groove on the left side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones also got an endorsement from Browns\u2019 elder statesman Joel Bitonio, who started next to him at guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was pretty good,\u201d Bitonio said. \u201cHe got nicked up there for a second, came out for a couple plays, but fought back and came back in. We had a couple good double teams in the run game, so there were some definitely positive signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Browns enter their bye Week at 2-7, so it\u2019s time to start thinking about the future. If Cleveland evaluates Jones as a viable option at left tackle, the fourth-round pick \u2014 under contract through 2026 on his $4.6 million rookie deal \u2014 would be an affordable option moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Browns will continue to roll with Dawand Jones at left tackle, which is bad news for Jedrick Wills Jr. moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-browns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Browns Polarizing First-Round Pick Gets Bad News on Future - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=1413\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Browns Polarizing First-Round Pick Gets Bad News on Future - 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