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Amari Cooper trade grades: Browns get high mark for giving up little, Cowboys don’t pass test

The Dallas Cowboys were able to find a suitor for Amari Cooper after all, trading him to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for a 2022 fifth and sixth-round pick. The Cowboys also sent their own sixth-round pick to the Browns, so Cleveland could take on the remaining three years and $60 million left on his contract. 

Dallas sheds $20 million in cap space while Cleveland gets a No. 1 wide receiver after the Odell Beckham debacle. So who won the trade between the two teams? Here are the grades for both the Cowboys and Browns: 

Cowboys: D

The Cowboys should get some credit for receiving two draft picks for Cooper, a player they were going to release to save $20 million in salary cap space next week. Even though Dallas was stuck between a rock and a hard place, the Cowboys could have received higher draft compensation for Cooper right? 

Cooper is owed $20 million per year over the next three years, a player Dallas…

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