Jabrill Peppers was sitting at home scrolling through Twitter when he came across the headline.
"I saw it and I was actually excited about the trade," he recalled on Friday. "I’m thinking, ‘We just got Odell!’"
Then he kept looking at the reports.
"And it’s like ‘Aw, [expletive]! I’m not even here no more!’"
Peppers, who had played the first two years of his NFL career with the Browns, was a piece of the deal that brought him, Kevin Zeitler and two draft picks to the Giants and sent Odell Beckham Jr. and Olivier Vernon to Cleveland.