Timeline
During Matt Rhule
- 1/14/2021: HIRED
2020 OFFSEASON
- FT Tag on Taylor Moton
- Cut Tre Boston
- Signed Cam Erving, Pat Elflein, Haason Reddick, Denzel Perryman, Dan Arnold, Frankie Luvu
- Traded 2021 6RP (Chiefs chose OG Trey Smith), 2022 2RP (Falcons chose DE Arnold Ebiketie), 2022 4RP (Jets chose Max Mitchell) for Sam Darnold.
- Traded Teddy Bridgewater to DEN for 6RP (PHI chose DE Tarron Jackson) and they pay 3M of his salary.
2021 DRAFT
- TRADE: Acquired 2021 2RP (52), 2021 3RP (83) and 2021 6RP (204) from Chicago for 39 (OT Teven Jenkins) and 151 (OT Larry Borom)
- TRADE: 52 (CLE chose Jeremiah Owosu-Koramoah) 113 (DET chose Derrick Barnes) For 59 and 89
- TRADE: Acquired 70 for 73 (PHI selected DT Milton Williams) and 191 (PHI selected DE Tarron Jackson)
TRADE: Acquired 109(traded to TEN), 158, 2022 4RP from Houston for 2021 89 overall (HOU selects WR Nico Collins).
- TRADE: Acquired 126, 166, 232 for 109 (TEN drafted WR Dez Fitzpatrick)
- DRAFTED: Jaycee Horn 8 overall
- Terrace “NOT Terrance” Marshall 59 overall
- Brady Christensen 70 overall
- Tommy Tremble 83 overall
- Chuba Hubbard 126 overall
- Daviyon Nixon 158 overall
- Keith Taylor 166 overall
- Drafted G Deonte Brown 193 overall
- WR Shi Smith 204 overall
- LS Thomas Fletcher 222 overall
- Phil Hoskins 232 overall
2021 PRE SEASON
- Taylor Moton signed contract
- TRADE: Greg Little to MIA for 7RP (CAR selects CB Kalon Barnes)
- TRADE: Denzel Perryman and 7RP (MIN selects TE Nick Muse) to LV for 6RP (Cade Mays)
2021 IN-SEASON
- TRADE: Dan Arnold and a 3RP (JAX selects ILB Chad Muma) to JAX for CJ Henderson and a 5RP (WSH selects QB Sam Howell)
- TRADE: Stephon Gilmore for 6RP(WR Kayshon Boutte) with NE
- SIGNED: Cam Newton
2021 OFFSEASON
- SIGNED: Corbett, Woods, Foreman, Hekker, DJ Moore, Bozeman, Donte Jackson
2022 DRAFT
- DRAFTED
- Ekwonu 6 overall
- Matt Corral 94 overall
- Brandon Smith 120 overall
- Amare Barno 189 overall
- Cade Mays 199 overall
- Kalon Barnes 242 overall
- TRADE 137 (Bailey Zappe) and 2023 76 overall (ILB Marte Mapu) for 94 overall.
- TRADE 144 (Sam Howell) and 149 (TE Cole Turner) for 120 and 189
2022 PRE SEASON
- TRADE 2024 5RP for Baker Mayfield and 10.5M of his salary paid by Browns
- TRADE Dennis Daley and 7RP for 5RP in 2024
MATT RHULE FIRED
- TRADE Robbie Anderson to AZ for 6RP and 7RP in 2024
- TRADE CMC for 61 (Traded to CHI in Bryce Young deal), 93 and 132 (used to draft DJ Johnson at 80 overall), in 2023, and a 5RP in 2024
2022 OFF-SEASON
- SIGNED Bozeman, Hurst, DeShawn Williams, Shy Tuttle, Andy Dalton, Vonn Bell, Adam Thielen, Miles Sanders, DJ Chark, KGH, Justin Houston, and Deion Jones
2023 DRAFT
- TRADE: Swap 2023 first round picks, Send 61 (from SF, JAX drafts TE Brenton Strange), 2024 1RP, 2025 2RP, and DJ Moore.
- DRAFTED
- Bryce Young 1 overall
- Mingo no. 39
- DJ Johnson 80 overall
- Zavala 114
- Jammie Robinson 145
I mean I am also cooling on Fitterer a bit, but the dude basically had to rebuild a team and rebuild it again all while giving away precious picks for multiple journeyman QBs and spending the picks he managed to keep in his pocket on high-RAS, low-floor players to satisfy Matt Rhule’s ego as a “developer of talent”.
Jaycee would be great if he could remain on the field, but Scott had no indication he was fragile. Ickey showed enough that I don’t really blame him for trying and he still may right the ship. Jury remains out on his day 2 and 3s but some of those guys do appear to be developing as we speak. His extreme late rounds are super duper suspicious. You do need to find value there to field a professional football team, and that’s why our depth is so gross.
All in all: pretty average scouting marred by shifting roster priorities and a tendency to try to be splashy when more conservative choices would do.