Browns urged to extend Grant Delpit before his contract voids next year
Browns urged to extend Grant Delpit before his contract voids next year
The Cleveland Browns have rebuilt nearly everything this offseason. New head coach. A blockbuster Myles Garrett trade. A rookie quarterback competition that has dominated headlines since the spring.
Through all of it, one straightforward roster decision has remained unresolved, and ESPN’s Aaron Schatz says it shouldn’t stay that way much longer.
He listed extending safety Grant Delpit as the one outstanding move left on Cleveland’s offseason checklist in his annual 32-team breakdown of final moves.
“Delpit is still playing at a high level,” Schatz wrote. “It can be hard to judge safety play, whether you use statistics or scouting, but Sports Info Solutions ranked him seventh among all safeties in its ‘total points saved’ metric last season. However, his contract is set to void after the 2026 season. He’ll be 29 years old for the 2027 season and could still play an important role on defense if the Browns are actually more successful at rebuilding this time. He would be a good veteran to keep around for the next couple of seasons.”
Delpit signed a three-year, $36 million extension in December 2023 that carries a 2026 cap charge of $8.033 million but balloons to a $16.927 million void-year hit in 2027 if nothing changes.
His deal voids 23 days before the start of the 2027 league year, which means the Browns have a real deadline working against them rather than an open-ended decision.
He has started 61 of 63 games since 2022 and enters 2026 with 451 career tackles, 25 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks, seven interceptions and 21 passes defended across his six seasons in Cleveland, all after losing his entire rookie year to a torn Achilles.
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