Analyst Proposes Blockbuster Bears, Browns Trade

The Cleveland Browns have a big decision to make right now.

The team’s best player doesn’t want to be there anymore, and that’s clearly far from an ideal situation.

That’s why multiple teams will most likely give it their best shot to try to trade for Myles Garrett.

With that in mind, Chicago Bears analyst  John Jurkovic argued that the Bears should try to trade for him with a package centered around Jaylon Johnson.

He believes that the Bears have more than enough depth to make up for it, adding that, as much as he likes a great cornerback like Johnson, he would still trade most of the roster for Garrett.

Talking on ESPN Chicago’s “The Chicago Bears Podcast,” he admitted that he would probably trade at least 60% of the players on the team except for Caleb Williams, Rome Odunze, and other young pieces to get Garrett.

The Browns should look to get at least two first-round picks in any trade involving their star pass rusher.

Moving on from him won’t be an easy call because of that.

By trading him, they would have to absorb a dead cap hit, and they would most likely not get equal returns in any transaction.

Even so, there aren’t many incentives to hold on to him for much longer, either.

Garrett isn’t getting any younger, and his trade value won’t go any higher.

If anything, it can only go down if he gets hurt or threatens to hold out, so the Browns will most likely have no choice but to comply at some point.

Bears Trade Pitch Deals $24 Million Starter After Rough Season

Ben Johnson has said he wants to rip the Chicago Bears offense “down to the studs” and rebuild it around quarterback Caleb Williams for the 2025 season.

Could his process include asking the team to trade away one of its highest-paid offensive starters, though – as the Detroit Lions once did during his tenure?

Bleacher Report’s Moe Moton recently pitched seven NFL trades that would “shake up” next month’s free agency period along with the 2025 NFL draft. Among them, he included one about starting running back D’Andre Swift.

The proposed trade: The Bears would send Swift and the remaining two years of his $24 million contract to the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for their 2025 fifth-round pick (No. 144 overall).

Swift’s potential trade candidacy has been discussed since Johnson’s hiring in January, largely because of their short-lived history with the Lions.

Swift saw the fewest carries (98) and played the fewest offensive snaps (393) of his career in 2022 during his lone season with Johnson as his offensive coordinator. The Lions then traded Swift to the Philadelphia Eagles in a 2023 draft-day trade after they signed David Montgomery and selected Jahmyr Gibbs in the first round, a sequence Moton speculated the Bears could try to imitate. ”

Johnson may – again – approve a trade that would send Swift to another team. If so, the Raiders would be a logical fit,” Moton wrote. “In 2024, the Raiders fielded the league’s worst ground attack. They need a full-scale backfield renovation.”