Cleveland has doesn’t have much cap allocated to the wide receiver position after Jerry Jeudy.
Next up on our Cleveland Browns salary cap round-up for 2025 is the wide receiver position. You can also see our Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of our WR preview.
With the wide receiver position, it’s now a position of high investment. Let’s take a look at the 2025 salary cap hits:
The only receiver who the Browns have a financial investment in right now is Jerry Jeudy, who is under contract through the 2027 season. Cleveland is committed to him, but the rest of the roster is wide open. That’s because the likes of Cedric Tillman, David Bell, Michael Woods, and Jamari Thrash were all lower draft picks who are still basically on their rookie deals. Bell is actually an oddity, because Cleveland waived him last year, put him on the practice squad, and them immediately called him back up. Tillman still has two years left on his deal.
DeAndre Carter and Diontae Johnson are both veterans who are basically making the minimum, as is everyone else on the roster. Without doing research, this has to be one of the cheapest groups of wide receivers in the NFL. The total cap hit of the receivers shows $20.24 million, but remember that come the regular season, only the Top 53 will count toward the cap. Presently, Woods is right on the border of that, so we’ll say the Top 6 receivers count (which adds up to $15 million). Odds are, one of those guys won’t make the team, so the regular season cap hits will be closer to $14 million for the position. The biggest savings would come from cutting Bell, but even that will only save about $400,000 against the cap.