Cleveland has attempted to do that in signing Maliek Collins, who was recently released by San Francisco, to a two-year agreement worth twenty million, thirteen million guaranteed.
Collina played his college football at Nebraska before the Dallas Cowboys picked him in round three of the 2016 draft and has played for four NFL teams, Cowboys, Raiders, Texans, and 49ers.
Collins turns thirty next month and spent only one season with San Francisco, who traded a 2024 seventh-round pick to Houston for Collins before last year's draft, where he started all seventeen games and finished with five sacks, tying his career best.
Tomlinson had three sacks for the Browns last year and Collins is a year younger, so the two are comparable players plus Collins will be a few million dollars cheaper against the cap.
Collins will bring a better pass rush than Tomlinson but will not stop the run as well as the departing Tomlinson.
Collins would be best used as the pass-rushing specialist among the defensive tackle rotation and properly used, could be more productive than Tomlinson, a player that played well for Cleveland and was released for financial reasons, not for performance.
All things considered, this is a lateral move but one worth making when you consider the cap-strapped Browns can save a few dollars that could help them sign someone else.
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