The Cleveland Browns have been more risk-averse than most organizations in terms of giving opportunities to players with checkered histories in their personal lives—sometimes second chances as well. That’s not just an observation. Their coaches and general managers have said it. They were the team who gave Kareem Hunt a job. They were the team who traded for Deshaun Watson—though half a dozen other teams probably would have as well.
This offseason, however, they found that they would have to move on from one such risk, second-year defensive lineman Perrion Winfrey, whom they released earlier this month following his second off-field altercation.