3 Reasons Cleveland Browns would be smart to release Jarvis Landry

Jarvis Landry certainly sounds like a guy that wants to be released and that might be the smart move by the Cleveland Browns at this point

Jarvis Landry arrived in Cleveland back in 2018 after a trade with the Miami Dolphins and promptly received a lot of fanfare and hype by Cleveland Browns fans because he was a relatively high-profile wide receiver and the Browns front office and then general manager John Dorsey wanted to make a splash with his new team. He didn’t necessarily care about the money he was starting to overspend on players.

Now in the last year of his contract, Landry is due north of $16 million. However, the team could save $14.9 million in cap space if they were to trade or release the wide receiver.

Landry recently decided to get on Twitter and voice his opinion. There, he tells us all how he’s done everything he could to help this team and tactically puts the weight of the world, I mean the decision on keeping him in Browns uniform solely on the shoulders of the front office.

The use of social media platforms has become a steady day job for a player like Landry. Despite, many Cleveland fans supporting Landry and wanting to see him return to play another down with the team, his antics have again pinned player versus team at the forefront of the news cycle and made the matter too public.

With that said, this place we are in now in the world where players are continuously using these tactics to push an agenda while trying to make the team look is really not a place that anyone should look forward to being in.

Landry has worn out his welcome in Cleveland. He knows that because he helped create this mess. None of what Landry is doing is helping his current team reach a championship. Instead, it’s meant to create a divide and he knows that as well.

He learned that also from his best friend and former teammate, Odell Beckham Jr., who already bolted for the hills of southern California and the Los Angelas Rams, after he forced the Browns to let him go after he and his father posted various messages on social media that negatively showed his displeasure in not being more part of the team’s offense and blaming someone else, in this case, his teammate and quarterback Baker Mayfield.

We don’t know how the next steps will go in either getting Landry to settle into playing out his last season in Cleveland or having the team release him. But releasing him, at this point after four years of ups and downs and the drama that Landry has helped create would probably be the best plan of action. Let’s take a look at a few of those reasons in more detail.