Revisiting the Pointless Browns-Packers Trade Involving Damarious Randall and DeShone Kizer

The Cleveland Browns were fresh off an 0-16 season in which DeShone Kizer started 15 of those games, and they decided that trying to flip him for a starting safety was the best way to erase the stench of that awful campaign.

In 2017, the Browns sent Kizer to the Green Bay Packers to back up Aaron Rodgers, and Cleveland managed to get back a package headlined by defensive back Damarious Randall, accompanied a host of draft picks.

Kizer was dealt along with a fourth-round pick that eventually became Panthers tight end Ian Thomas as well as a fifth-round pick the Packers used on Cole Madison. Randall went to Cleveland in exchange for the picks that became Da'Shawn Hand and Genard Avery. Randall started for two seasons and had some solid moments in Cleveland, while Kizer threw two picks and no touchdowns in his only season as a Packer.

Oddly enough, the two have decided to combine their talents in Vegas, as Randall signed a one-year deal with the Raiders, a team that features Kizer as their third-string quarterback.

In the end, this was as pointless as it gets.

Randall had some solid moments for the Browns in his two years, but it didn't get them anywhere. Kizer gave the Packers nothing, and they failed to use either of the draft picks they acquired to land a quality player. A largely inconsequential deal, but a somewhat successful one for Cleveland given Randall's contributions.