Kareem Hunt likely not returning to Browns in 2023
Kareem Hunt will likely not return to the Cleveland Browns in 2023. It was a good run, but at the end of the day, all good things must come to an end.
In about a month and a half or so, you should expect Kareem Hunt to sign with a new team for the 2023 season as he is unlikely to be in a Browns uniform.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who reads this publication as a plethora of us have said he should’ve been traded back in August.
It is being reported that if no other team wishes to sign Hunt this offseason, he could return, but would likely have to take a pay cut.
This past season was one where Hunt failed to raise his stock, which was pretty high after the 2020 season, but he has regressed over the last couple of years. At one point, the duo of Hunt and Nick Chubb was one that was highly regarded around the league, but only the latter continued to improve while the former simply did not.
Many thought Hunt would be an ideal trade chip to either acquire draft capital or another player. But the trade deadline came and went and the Browns decided to hang on to Hunt. Now, was this due to the fact the Browns has gotten a much-needed win prior to the bye week, or was there no interest from other teams?
It was reported that the Browns asking price for Hunt was just a fourth-round pick, so if a team didn’t want to part ways with a fourth-rounder then maybe that says a lot more about Hunt.
Hunt certainly won’t receive the lucrative contract that he once was seeking, but there will be teams looking to bring him in, Teams like the Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams, and NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles were all teams that could have been calling Cleveland last year, but alas, no deal was done.
Kareem Hunt did a lot of good things for the Browns, but it is now time to say goodbye and allow both parties to move on to the next chapter.
