Browns Want To Extend Wide Receiver Amari Cooper "Sooner Rather Than Later"

Recent report indicates Amari Cooper could be part of the Browns plans beyond 2024, which is currently set to be the last year he's under contract with the franchise.

Dec 17, 2023; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Browns wide receiver Amari Cooper (2) runs the ball / Scott Galvin-USA TODAY Sports

If you could trade a 5th-round pick, make a sixth-round pick swap to acquire 150 total receptions, 2,410 total yards 14 total touchdowns and a new single-game receiving yards record holder, you make that deal ten times out of ten chances.

That's exactly what Andrew Berry did in 2021 when he landed star wideout Amari Cooper from the Cowboys. Now it appears Berry is considering making Cooper part of the team's future plans as well.

On Wednesday, Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com reported that the Browns are trying to extend the 10-year veteran "sooner rather than later," in an effort to keep him in Cleveland beyond the upcoming season. As things stand right now, 2024 would be the final year of Cooper's current deal with the Browns, unless, of course, Berry works to change that.

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Since becoming a Cleveland Brown, Cooper has been nothing but short of a workhorse. On the heels of the Josh Gordon saga and a drama filled three years with Odell Beckham Jr, Cooper arrived as a nice change of pace from many of the diva wide receivers who dominate the league today. He's let his play due the talking.

The circumstances around his tenure in Cleveland have not been ideal either. Berry brought him in to be Deshaun Watson's go to target two offseasons ago but the duo has played just 11 games together over the last two years. That didn't stop him from becoming the first wideout in franchise history to record back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. He pulled it off by catching passes from a rotating cast of quarterbacks as well, with Jacoby Brissett, PJ Walker, Dorian Thompson-Robinson and Joe Flacco all starting games with the soon to be 30-year-old.

When the Browns need a leader, Cooper always seems to step his game up. When they need a third-down conversion the ball goes his way. When they need a score, he's ready to make a play.

If the two sides can come to an agreement at some point this offseason to keep Cooper in Cleveland beyond this year, it would serve as a massive boost for the organization in the years ahead.