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Cleveland Browns: Easy to forget Tramon Williams

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 9:26 p.m. ET

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The Cleveland Browns cut veteran Tramon Williams from the roster earlier this week. For fans, this transaction is more of a relief than anything.

It was an ugly Cleveland Browns tenure for cornerback Tramon Williams. After two seasons lost in the midst of an inexperienced secondary, the well-respected former Green Bay Packer was released by the organization on Tuesday.

Cutting Williams loose marks the demise of yet another Ray Farmer free agency acquisition, as does the release of quarterback Josh McCown, which was announced at the same time. This gives the Browns a lot more cap space to spend – somewhere north of $105 million – as Williams was making close to $7 million a year when you combine his roster bonus and salary.

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When reflecting on his tenure as a whole there is a lot of reason to respect Williams. He acted professionally, mentored young cornerbacks, and pulled his weight while keeping an upbeat attitude in such disastrous circumstances. But despite all of this, fans will have no reason erasing the 33-year-old’s memory.

It was a struggle for the veteran in this defense. Playing second fiddle to Joe Haden, Williams has little to show for his 22 starts. He made just two interceptions, had only 14 pass break-ups, and made 83 tackles, many of which came on running backs.

The 2010 Pro Bowl selection was also given the opportunity to return punts, as some Cleveland fans may have already forgotten. After all, who hasn’t returned a punt for the Browns? As seems to normally be the case, Williams had little success in the punt return game and failed to provide any spark.

The play of the Louisiana Tech graduate was very simply forgettable during his time with the Browns. Unable to provide the team with any spark, and understandably so, Williams now moves on to his career’s next destination, and the Browns move on from Williams.

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For fans, it won’t be overly difficult to move on as well. Embracing a complete rebuild with few 30-plus-year-old free agents seems to be the most popular attitude following a 4-28 stretch over the past two seasons.

Now, without Williams, Cleveland’s secondary will become even less experienced and even more vulnerable, if that’s possible. Yet still, the youth movement is something fans are embracing if it means getting rid of all reminders of a torturous two years.

Williams, like McCown, is a victim of an incompetent front office that set the roster’s development back several seasons while squandering millions of dollars in free agency. These two players did everything in their power to overcome the obstacles placed in front of them, but just couldn’t.

This is exactly why there ought to be no hard feelings against Williams. Still though, fans have no problem with moving on. The organization really had no choice, and they are now hopefully moving efficiently in the right direction, unlike before.

In short, cutting Williams and McCown is an effort to drain the Farmer swamp. And just as fans had no problem seeing Farmer go, it won’t take them long to get over this move either.

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