Jared Verse’s immediate reaction to the trade that sent him and the draft pick to Cleveland for Myles Garrett was pain. However, he quickly changed his behavior.
Joining the NFL Network Good morning Football on Wednesday, Verse said that after the initial shock was over, he was excited to be a part of what Todd Monken and the Browns are building.
“I’d be lying to all of you if I said it didn’t hurt, if it didn’t bother me,” he said of the trade. “You build relationships with people, you build a routine, then you start to approach, you start to imagine your whole career in one place and then you don’t get any warning; it just kind of pops up one day and you just have to swallow it. It’s a big pill that you have to swallow, like, OK, it changes everything.
“But when I got to Cleveland, I met the coaches, I met my teammates, I met the staff, I saw the vision that they have for not just me, but the whole team, I started to get excited, I started to get excited. I was like, man, forget this offseason, this mini-camp, the preseason – let’s start the season right away so we can start right away.”