Mack can opt out of his contract at the end of this year. Why would you trade a high pick for a guy you might only have for nine games?

 

Haden has a $10M salary next year. If the Browns cut or traded him, they'd take (by my count) an immediate acceleration of $8,400,000 onto their salary cap in addition to the existing $2.9M signing/workout bonus proration. It would essentially cost them more to trade Haden this year than it would to keep him on the team for 2016. If they trade or release him in the offseason, they save less than $2M under the cap. The Browns, by the way, have nothing remotely resembling a cap problem. Wanting to offload Mack or Thomas, a couple of aging linemen having down years, makes a bit of sense. Trading away a solid corner who's only 26 does not.

 

Also, I would not give up what is likely to be a high first-round pick for any combination of the above, especially if it appears a new coach will be coming in and wanting to add his own guys.

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