We don’t spend a whole bunch of time covering the NFL over at FloFootball—if only because we probably won’t be bidding on Monday Night Football any time soon and we typically stay pretty deep in the weeds on the various high school and college levels.

And, perhaps, due to my lack of experience covering the NFL beyond the surface level, I’m just simply missing some obvious piece here. But, at the risk of getting schooled by Peter King, I have to ask this if no one else will:

What the hell was that Corey Coleman trade, Cleveland?

As most of you are by now aware, the Browns traded their 2016 first round pick, former Baylor wide receiver Corey Coleman, to Buffalo, for a 2020 seventh round pick.

Even more perplexing than that is the fact that no one is batting an eye.

Coleman has suffered a pair of broken hands during his first two years in the NFL. When he’s been on the field, he’s been reasonably productive—particularly considering the stop-and-start nature of his career thus far.

What’s more, he isn’t just a two-year-old first round pick. He was the Browns’ headliner of a trade out of the No. 2 overall spot, where the Eagles would draft Carson Wentz.

They just gave up on that guy for a pick that would’ve landed them Charone Peake or Kenny Lawler in Coleman’s draft year—to which you say, “Who?” And I say, “Exactly.”

Also, the fact that Buffalo sent them a seventh-rounder would at least imply that this was the middle ground of the pseudo negotiation that took place between the teams. So, how did that conversation go?

Brandon Beane: We want Corey Coleman for free.

John Dorsey: We’d like another human being in exchange.

Beane: You drive a hard bargain. We’ll give you a seventh round pick.

Dorsey: Sold.

Pretty much had to be something like that, right?

Beane called the Coleman trade a “low-risk move.” Uh, I’d say. If Coleman busts, the Bills lose nothing. If he hits? They just stole a first round wide receiver for a bag of peanuts and some leftover wedding koozies.

The Browns now have zero remaining players from any draft ranging 2009-’16. Coleman is the only player from 2016 draft who will not be with the team that drafted him this season.

Meanwhile, the Bills have now traded a third round pick and two seventh round picks for Kelvin Benjamin and Corey Coleman in the past 10 months. 

It’s like the Madden trade logic is broken in favor of Beane in real life.