Jared Verse admits he was initially unhappy after being traded from the Rams to the Browns

Jared Verse's family is from Dayton, Ohio, and his older sister still lives location and will beryllium comparatively adjacent by, truthful nan waste and acquisition that sent Verse to nan Cleveland Browns comes pinch benefits. But let's not kid ourselves, going from nan Los Angeles Rams to nan Browns wasn't welcomed news for Verse.

"I was upset for a bully small spot of time," Verse revealed erstwhile he met pinch section reporters astatine nan Browns' facility connected Wednesday.

Understandable.

Jared Verse of nan Los Angeles Rams reacts during nan NFC Championship crippled against nan Seattle Seahawks astatine Lumen Field successful Seattle, Wash., connected Jan. 25, 2026.

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That's because going from nan Rams, a Super Bowl contender, to nan Browns, a squad contending to decorativeness past successful nan AFC North, is not going to instantly consciousness awesome. It's nan proverbial travel from nan penthouse to nan outhouse.

"Yeah, it caught maine by surprise," Verse continued. "I loved L.A. I loved nan coaches, nan organization, my teammates, everybody a portion of it, nan staff, nan fans. You know, I loved nan full vibe of LA, Los Angeles, nan Rams, and it was upsetting."

This is simply a subordinate who shows nary weakness connected nan section being susceptible successful beforehand of strangers.

And location really should beryllium nary judgement present because we get it. We've seen it before.

Jared Goff helped nan Rams get to a Super Bowl successful February of 2019. So he thought he was building a life pinch that team. But 2 years later, he was traded to nan Detroit Lions for older, much accomplished Matthew Stafford.

Jared Goff of nan Detroit Lions celebrates a touchdown during an NFL crippled against nan Baltimore Ravens astatine M&T Bank Stadium successful Baltimore, Md., connected Sept. 22, 2025. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)

It's a rustle to nan ego.

And for illustration nan Goff-Stafford deal, we're talking astir going from Gucci leather belts to nan Rust Belt. Because Cleveland is simply a bully municipality and all, but nan weather doesn't comparison pinch Los Angeles. And nan vibe for a 25-year-old pinch a batch of money evidently isn't nan same, either.

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Then location are nan prospects for nan coming season. Verse was mentally prepared to tally it backmost pinch a bully squad until this trade. The Rams had a 12-5 grounds past play and reached nan NFC Championship game. The Browns were 5-12 and reached for a coaching change.

But a duty, 1 supposes, of being a master jock is knowing that your squad is your workplace. It's your business, not your family.

Many teams show players they're successful a family but erstwhile was nan past clip a family traded a boy aliases brother?

Verse gets that now.

"When you’re an athlete, you understand nan quality of nan business," he said. "Everybody does what they deliberation is champion for their business, and that’s nan business that I’m in. I’m happy to beryllium a portion of nan Browns. I’m happy that they believed successful maine and they were capable to make that waste and acquisition and bring maine here, beryllium pinch my teammates, beryllium pinch everybody here.

"And I genuinely do judge successful everybody successful nan locker room.  But it was upsetting astatine first. But past you sewage 2 choices: You tin either activity aliases you tin springiness up, and I ain’t ne'er been a quitter."

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Cleveland Browns protect extremity Myles Garrett warms up earlier nan NFL Week 10 crippled against nan New York Jets astatine MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, N.J., connected Nov. 9, 2025. (IMAGN)

An intriguing facet of nan Browns trading Myles Garrett for Verse, a first-round prime successful 2027, a second-round prime successful 2028 and a third-round prime successful 2029 is that they held accelerated until nan Rams added Verse to nan deal. Until that point, nan woody was a draught compensation speech for Garrett that Cleveland wasn't needfully wanting to make.

"I ever told myself that if we were ever successful a position wherever were going to waste and acquisition Myles, 3 things would person to beryllium true," Browns Executive Vice President and General Manager Andrew Berry said. "Number one, it would person to person short and agelong word benefits. Number two, arsenic portion of nan trade, a young cost-control prima astatine a premium position would person to beryllium included. The 3rd portion is that location would person to beryllium premium draught capital.

"And there’s a very mini group of deals that really fulfill those constraints. So, erstwhile it sewage to nan constituent pinch our negotiations pinch nan Rams, erstwhile each those things were satisfied, it really caused america to return a measurement backmost and really deliberation astir nan decision.

"Jared Verse, he’s evidently a immense portion of this return for us."

This is bully for Verse. He's connected a squad that wants him and is much intimately aligned pinch his profession arc. He's connected his rookie statement done nan 2027 season. And he's connected a squad that is building for a brighter early successful possibly 2 aliases 3 years.

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The Rams are successful win-now mode. They're stacking their roster pinch high-priced veterans and 2 aliases 3 years from now mightiness beryllium successful rebuilding mode.

So possibly nan move Verse didn't initially for illustration could activity successful his amended interest.

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