How Paul Kruger Fits with the Cleveland Browns

March 13, 2013   ·   Andrea Hangst   ·   Jump to comments

It wasn't much of a surprise when it was announced the Cleveland Browns had signed free-agent linebacker Paul Kruger on Tuesday (per Mary Kay Cabot of The Plain Dealer). His five-year, $41 million deal (with $20 million guaranteed) is now signed and sealed, and, if you'll indulge my terrible wordplay, it's now up to Kruger to deliver.
Kruger comes to the Browns from the Baltimore Ravens, where he was the team's sack leader in 2012, with nine in the regular season and 4.5 through their Super Bowl-winning playoff run. That season also saw Kruger take on the heaviest workload of his four years in Baltimore, playing 1,068 total snaps at both right and left outside linebacker; he played only 373 snaps in 2011 as a situational pass-rusher.
In fact, "situational pass-rusher" was Kruger's primary job in Baltimore before 2012, when he had to step in and start in place of Jarret Johnson, who left the Ravens last year in free agency, as well as fill Terrell Suggs' shoes while he continu...

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