Patriots trade Jamie Collins to Browns for third-round pick

The Patriots have traded Jamie Collins to a Browns in sell for a third-round pick, ESPN reported Monday.

Despite New England’s story of trade players while still in their prime, a pierce is a startling one a day forward of a NFL’s trade deadline.

The Patriots and Collins were reportedly during contingency in discussions about a agreement extension; a 27-year-old is personification in a final year of his rookie understanding and can be an unlimited giveaway representative in 2017.

Mike Lombardi, a former Patriots staffer, tweeted that Collins’ freelancing on invulnerability Sunday led to a 28-yard play by a Bills.

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“Been function all year. It was not going to continue,” Lombardi tweeted. “You are possibly coaching it or permitting it to happen. Belichick motionless he was not going to concede it to happen.”

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