The Cleveland Browns Won the Carson Wentz Trade
4 min readFeb 21, 2021
The Cleveland Browns won the Carson Wentz trade. A take that seemed obvious as the Eagles ate $30 million in dead cap to ship Carson out of town just 5 years after drafting him ended up being a hotly contested take by Philly fans. Let’s dive deeper.
The common assertion as the deal was completed with Indianapolis is that without Wentz, the Eagles never get to the playoffs and have a chance to win the Super Bowl, and so Philadelphia won the trade. It’s true that in the 2017 season when the Eagles won the Super Bowl, Carson Wentz was having his best…
