Jared Verse is doing a great job of saying the right things about his new team.
Even Cleveland’s gloomier weather is getting praised by the new Browns star defensive end.
“California doesn’t really rain that much. I was outside yesterday just enjoying the rain, sitting on the back porch just like taking deep little breaths, seeing deer running around and everything like that. It was cool,” Verse told reporters on Monday, via Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com.
Furthermore, two-time Pro Bowler Verse said his trade from the Los Angeles Rams to the Browns surprised him, but the shock didn’t linger as he immediately accepted his new reality.
“I mean, I like it here. But I wasn’t really distraught at all. After kind of the initial shock, I was like, all right, cool. Like I’m a Brown, let’s work,” added the 25-year-old Verse.
“I love the organization, especially the first day of the camp. You see all the fans out there. I’m like, damn, like, excuse my French. Like, the fans, it was lit out there. They was lively, and they bleed orange and brown. I love it out here.”
As good as Verse has been so far in his NFL career, he has massive shoes to fill in Cleveland, considering the man the Browns parted ways with in the trade to acquire the former Florida State Seminoles star from Los Angeles.
Cleveland sent shockwaves across the football world in June when the AFC North franchise traded all-time Browns great Myles Garrett to the Rams in exchange for a package headlined by Verse.
Through two seasons in the NFL, Verse has accumulated totals of 12.0 sacks, 124 passes defended and 45 quarterback hits in 34 games.
