Jared Verse still doesn't sound thrilled with Rams-Browns Myles Garrett trade

Trading for Myles Garrett cost the Los Angeles Rams star edge rusher Jared Verse in addition to several high-value draft picks. It doesn't sound like Verse, the Cleveland Browns' newest star, is over the move.

In an interview with Colin Cowherd, Verse was asked if being traded stings less knowing that he was the primary asset exchanged for someone like Garrett. Verse, in his candor, said that getting traded "feels terrible' no matter who else ends up exchanging hands. To make matters even worse, he didn't sound too thrilled with how Browns camp is conducted.

Verse called a Matthew Stafford-led Rams practice "locked-in" due to their status as a veteran team chasing a ring. By contrast, Browns practice features more laughter and less psychotic focus, a byproduct of many heavy-hitters on that team being in their first few seasons. Verse could not have been sent to a worse situation, which stinks for someone as good as he is.

Former Los Angeles Rams star Jared Verse still isn't thrilled about the trade

Verse, who was recently ranked as the 35th-best player in the NFL by his contemporaries, made the Pro Bowl in each of his first two seasons with the Rams, pressuring the quarterback at a rate that belies his sack totals. Those skills will now be served on a Browns team in the middle of a very long rebuild.

Verse will get some added responsibility in Cleveland, as he will be the focal point of a defense that will be built almost entirely around getting him in advantageous situations as a pass rusher. Based on his comments, however, it sounds like Verse would be just fine in his old digs.

The one consolation Verse can take from this is that Cleveland will likely be willing to offer him a top-of-the-line contract extension that will make him one of the highest-paid defenders in football. The Rams may not have been willing to do that. Making $40 million per season might help Verse get over his complaints.

It has to sting going from a title favorite to a team that would jump for joy if they won more than the five games they did last year. Even if he has a great season statistically as the centerpiece of the Browns' defense, he'll be stuck going through rebuilding trials and tribulations while Garrett and the Rams gear up for a chance to win another Lombardi Trophy.

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