Browns officially announce Joe Haden will sign a one-day contract to retire as a Brown and be honored at the Browns’ Week 8 game against the Bengals on Monday Night Football.
Haden chose to call it quits in the city where he spent the first seven seasons (2010-16) of his professional career. He played for rival Pittsburgh from 2017 through last season.
“More roots,” Haden said before being formally inducted into the Florida Athletic Hall of Fame. “I was a kid. I was 21 years old, fresh and the city embraced me. I was going to all the Cavs games, so it’s more the city of Cleveland.”