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Found February 28, 2012 on Waiting For Next Year: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Peyton Hillis
TEAMS: Cleveland Browns,  Arizona Cardinals,  Baltimore Ravens
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Rumors are circulating throughout Berea that the Cleveland Browns have prepared a three-year, incentive-laden offer of for running back Peyton Hillis. Fresh off of locking up veteran linebacker D’Qwell Jackson, the Browns have apparently set their sites on Hillis who followed up a career season in 2010 with a relative clunker one season later. The Browns, per Cleveland’s 19 Action News/WOIO’s Tony Zarella, have pulled their initial offer off of the table and have provided the back with a deal where he could prove which of the last two seasons was in fact the aberation. “Its really in his court,” said Zarella in a Tuesday morning interview on 92.3 The Fan.  It was Zarella who reported the initial offer of three years and $16.5 million back in November. The new offer is reported to start around the $10 million mark with very little in guarantees. Hillis finished the 2011 season strong, recording 211 combined yards against the Arizona Cardinals and Baltimore Ravens. Unfortunately, thos...
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