Browns Trade Pitch Flips Star for Draft Pick in Cap-Saving Move

Cleveland can likely move some of its bigger salaries, including that of currently injured right guard Wyatt Teller, if the team decides to sell ahead of the league’s November 5 trade deadline. And one potentially interested party is the Chicago Bears.

Chicago has surrendered 17 sacks through five games this season and battled poor play as well as injury questions at right guard. Bears general manager Ryan Poles is apparently scanning teams likely to be sellers with four weeks of games yet to play before the NFL freezes all swaps until next spring, which could bring Teller — the three-time Pro Bowler — into the mix for Chicago.

“Poles is monitoring players from the Browns, the [New England] Patriots and the [Los Angeles] Rams to see what they do with all those teams being, I believe, 1-4 on the season so far,” Haize, a Bears podcaster featured on Bleacher Report, said Friday, October 11. “Wyatt Teller, who has injury concerns … also has a [$22] million cap hit next season, so you got those things to look at. But outside of those things, one of the things as well with Wyatt Teller is that when he is healthy, he’s a Pro Bowler. And, reportedly, [the Bears can acquire him] for a Day 3 pick in the NFL draft.”