Should Browns have interest in former Raiders safety Johnathan Abram?

Abram would not make this team better in 2022.

However, the money between the rest of his rookie deal (which is the rest of 2022) and a contract should he clear waivers would not be significantly different. All of this to say, if the Browns opt to add a former first round pick via waivers, which is a trend they have done under Berry, the move would not be a consequential one.

Abram will be a free agent at the end of the season one way or the other, and could end up in Cleveland in 2023 anyway. Karl Joseph, Takk McKinley, and Taven Bryan are all first rounders who Berry signed on last chance contracts. Some have worked out better than others, but Abram follows that same trend.

He has not been good for the Raiders since he was a top-32 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. However, he is a physical presense when he is playing in control. With the stakes being so low on a move to claim or sign him, it is a move Berry could very easily make to give Abram a change of scenery.

Will he be asked to contribute if the Browns added him? That is to be decided, but in a room with a struggling Ronnie Harrison and an undrafted rookie in D’Anthony Bell, adding Abram cannot make the room any worse.

But he also will not elevate the room.