• QB Brady Quinn (traded to DEN for Peyton Hillis, 6th in 2011, conditional pick in 2012) ==> QB Jake Delhomme (UFA, CAR, 2-year deal) Biggest decision so far: deciding Quinn wasn’t worth building around, then banking on a 35-year-old to man the helm until the next great Browns QB emerges. May not be popular, but I do see the logic. I’d like to see that heir apparent though.
  
• QB Derek Anderson (cut) ==> QB Seneca Wallace (acquired from SEA for conditional 7th in 2011) DA’s contract was an obvious albatross. Wallace is an experienced backup with wheels. Could also help as a spot sub on, say, third-and-three. Good move, though he’s only signed through this year.
  
• OL Hank Fraley (cut, signed by STL to 3-year deal) ==> OL Tony Pashos (UFA, SF, 3-year deal) Fraley gets props for stabilizing the center position after the Bentley disaster and contributing even after Alex Mack arrived. Pashos is expected to upgrade the right side of the line.
• OLB Kamerion Wimbley (traded to OAK for 3rd) ==> ILB Scott Fujita (UFA, NO, 3-year deal) The unexpected trade follows the arrival and emergence of several LBs last season. Gumby was decent and durable, but the tweener didn’t quite grow into the well-rounded star you’d expect from a 13th-overall pick. He’s also not locked up long-term. Fujita is a solid starter for the Super Bowl champs. Might be better to think of it as Roth making Wimbley expendable, and Fujita potentially replacing Barton.
  
• TE Steve Heiden (cut) ==> TE Ben Watson (UFA, NE, 3-year deal) Nice upgrade here. Heiden is the third best tight end in Browns history, but was slowed by injury. Watson and Evan Moore should catch 60 passes between them, many in the red zone and on third-down conversions. With Royal as the blocker and special-teamer, this position appears solid.
• RB Jamal Lewis (cut) ==> RB Peyton Hillis (acquired along with draft picks for Quinn) Lewis achieved more as a Brown than I expected, but the speed that set him apart among big backs was gone. Hillis is a popular pounder with career averages of 4.9 yards rushing, 11.0 receiving, and he’s under a cheap contract for two more years. I’d hoped the Browns would draft Toby Gerhart from Stanford in the second for this role, but since there’s no guarantees, I’m just glad to see this particular hole filled.
• CB Hank Poteat (UFA) ==> CB John Bowie (UFA, signed to reserve/future contract) Poteat performed as expected as the nickel corner: terribly. If the speedy Bowie can stay healthy and make the team, all’s the better, but the Browns need at least another starter at this position.

Other departing players

• DL Corey Williams (traded with 7th-round pick to DET for 5th) This seems like a low return for a former franchise tag designee that just two years ago was acquired for a second-rounder. But another one of those excessive Savage-era contracts, along with Williams’ game not meshing well with the defensive scheme, dictated this move.
  
• G Rex Hadnot (UFA, signed by ARI to 3-year-deal) He was actually one of the better right guards since the Browns’ rebirth, but that’s not saying much. I’m OK with letting him go, but as it stands today the interior line lacks experienced depth. Pursuing RFA guard Rob Sims makes sense, even beyond his Holmgren and Ohio connections (his dad is a former Brown), as his signing would require only 4th-round compensation.
  
• OL Ryan Tucker (retired) One of the Browns’ best veteran free agent signings of the decade, but he started just 71 games in eight years. Health problems of all sort played a role in his decline.
  
• WR Donte’ Stallworth (cut, signed by BAL, 1-year deal) If you had to blame one single player for the Browns’ descent from 10-6 to 4-12 and 5-11, this would be the guy. Think they couldn’t still really use a veteran wideout with the speed to stretch the field? He was everything you don’t want from a free agent: ridiculously expensive, fragile, a bad influence on teammates (to the point of physically disabling them), and an off-the-field disaster.
  
• S Brodney Pool (untendered FA, signed by NYJ, 1-year deal) Concussion problems scared the new regime from re-signing him, so you can’t blame them, though Pool was a capable starter and safety is like micron thin.

Other Browns UFAs: WR/S Mike Furrey, TE Greg Estandia, TE Michael Gaines, OL Billy Yates.

Browns re-signed: MVP Joshua Cribbs. DB Ray Ventrone, another key special-teams player, reportedly got a three-year deal (though he’s now absent from the official site’s roster).

RFAs tendered 2010 contracts: LB Jason Trusnik (signed), LB Matt Roth, LB D’Qwell Jackson, RB Jerome Harrison, FB Lawrence Vickers, S Abram Elam. If any sign with another team and the Browns opt not to match, Cleveland would receive a 2nd-round pick.

Glenn in the ‘Cooler has a nice, current rundown of the Browns’ draft position.With more FA signings, trade possibilities, and a dozen draftees to pick, look for Holmgren and crew to focus on (in order of importance):

• a starting safety (perhaps shoot for STL’s former franchise designee, O.J. Atogwe, and/or draft Eric Berry)
  
• a quarterback of the future (Round 2 or 3, I hope)
• a starting cornerback better than Brandon McDonald
  
• a deep threat at WR
• interior offensive line depth
  
• a defensive lineman
• another safety and/or corner.