MIAMI _ The Jarvis Landry era in Miami is over.
The Miami Dolphins traded Landry, their talented, mercurial wide receiver to the Cleveland Browns on Friday for two draft picks. The trade will be made official at the start of the new league year Wednesday.
NFL Network reports the Dolphins will receive a pick in 2018 and another in 2019. The exact terms of the trade were not immediately available, but ESPN reported that neither of the picks is in the first or second rounds.
Landry signed his one-year, $16 million franchise tag on Thursday _ which cleared the way for the trade.
A league source says Landry and the Browns don't have a long-term deal and haven't seriously talked numbers yet. But both sides are interested in doing that. The source also said that Landry likes the Cleveland situation, and he is excited about working with offensive coordinator Todd Haley.
The source said that Baltimore also showed considerable interest in Landry this week, but the Dolphins didn't want to wait longer. For salary-cap reasons, the Dolphins felt a great urgency to purge Landry before the start of free agency.
Landry has caught more passes in his first four seasons than any player in NFL history (400). However, the Dolphins balked at giving him the big, multi-year contract he desired, and granted his agent permission to work out a trade.
The Ravens and Browns were among the teams interested. On Friday, he green-lit a move to Cleveland, which has won just one game in the last two seasons.
"Y'all better understand s--- about to get SERIOUS ... ON MY MAMA," Landry wrote on Twitter after word of the trade emerged.
The move brings to a close Landry's productive, yet tumultuous time in Miami. The Dolphins took him in the second round of the 2014 draft and he immediately became an emotional, if not mature, leader. College teammates and close friends with Odell Beckham Jr., they became two of the most exciting young receivers in the game.
As recently as November, the Dolphins were poised to lock Landry down long term. But something soured in the past few months, possibly beginning with an on-field shouting match with coach Adam Gase. Things went from bad to worse in Week 17, when Landry was kicked out of the Bills game for instigating an ugly brawl; Gase later called Landry's behavior "embarrassing."
The Dolphins placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on Landry the first day they could, but did so with the intention of trading him. They insisted they would not rescind the tag, believing a team would offer them sufficient compensation for a trade to work.
On Friday, the Browns became that team.
