Should Cleveland Browns Have Waited to Trade Terrance West?

September 15, 2015   ·   Andrea Hangst   ·   Jump to comments

Just over one week ago—and exactly a week before the Cleveland Browns opened their 2015 regular season against the New York Jets—the Browns opted to trade 2014 Round 3 draft pick Terrance West to the Tennessee Titans for a conditional seventh-round draft pick in 2016.
Though the Browns traded up two spots in 2014 to select West—moving two other draft picks to do so—they determined that "because of his inconsistency on the field and immaturity off of it," in the words of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer's Mary Kay Cabot, it was time to move on from West after one season.
There's no need to keep a player around who takes more than he gives or requires more coddling and support than the team or his coaches are willing to give. Head coach Mike Pettine has long harped on West's inconsistency in performance and preparation, and he was benched by Pettine twice in his rookie season for these specific reasons.
But given the Browns' run-game performance in their ...

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