The Cleveland Browns are buying and selling for Houston Texans offensive deal with Cam Robinson by way of a swap of late-round picks in 2027, sources informed ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler on Monday.
The Browns had a necessity at offensive deal with after Dawand Jones suffered a season-ending harm in Week 3. He underwent surgical procedure final week to restore a torn LCL and hamstring avulsion.
Cleveland has used 4 totally different beginning offensive line mixtures in as many video games due to offensive deal with accidents. Along with Jones’ season-ending harm, proper deal with Jack Conklin has missed the previous three video games due to an elbow harm.
Backups KT Leveston and Cornelius Lucas have struggled with prolonged enjoying time. Leveston and Lucas rank 57th and 61st, respectively, out of 66 qualifying tackles in ESPN’s cross block win fee. The Browns’ offensive line ranks tenth in run block win fee however twenty seventh in cross block win fee.
Cleveland final week additionally signed Thayer Munford Jr. off the New England Patriots’ observe squad however he was inactive for the staff’s 34-10 loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday, a recreation by which quarterback Joe Flacco was sacked thrice and pressured 19 instances.
Robinson, who signed a one-year contract with Texans as a free agent in March, was inactive for Houston’s 26-0 victory over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. He appeared in Houston’s first three video games however made only one begin.
The Texans paid $8.75 million of Robinson’s $12 million 2025 contract by way of a signing bonus, so the Browns are solely on the hook for the proration of his $2 million base wage and $1.25 million in per-game roster bonuses. He additionally has $500,000 in incentives.
Within the offseason, Houston drafted left deal with Aireontae Ersery within the second spherical to compete with Robinson, who suffered a knee harm early in camp that knocked him out for a few weeks. Ersery took full benefit of the harm and snatched the beginning function.
However Robinson nonetheless began in Week 1 due to an harm to proper guard Ed Ingram. That compelled Houston to insert Robinson at left deal with whereas pushing Ersery to proper deal with whereas the unique proper deal with starter Tytus Howard went to proper guard.
However as soon as Ingram was wholesome sufficient to begin, Howard went again to proper deal with and Ersery returned to left deal with. That relegated Robinson to a backup function.
Robinson, 29, spent the primary 7½ years of his profession with the Jacksonville Jaguars earlier than the Minnesota Vikings acquired him final season in Week 9 as a short lived substitute for injured left deal with Christian Darrisaw. He made his first begin for the Vikings 5 days after the commerce and made a complete of 11 begins, together with the postseason.
The Jaguars’ second-round choose in 2017, Robinson has made it by full seasons twice in his profession: 2020 and 2024. Accidents and a four-game suspension in 2023, for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug coverage, value him video games in all different seasons.
ESPN’s Daniel Oyefusi and DJ Bien-Aime contributed to this report.