Jameis Winston pens heartfelt goodbye to Browns fans after signing with Giants

Jameis Winston spent conscionable 1 play with the Cleveland Browns, but the metropolis and its fans seemed to person near a lasting people connected the NFL veteran. 

In an unfastened missive to fans, Winston penned a heartfelt goodbye to the enactment connected Thursday aft signing with the New York Giants connected a two-year, $8 cardinal woody past month. 

Browns backmost Jameis Winston takes a selfie aft defeating the Baltimore Ravens astatine Huntington Bank Field. (Scott Galvin)

"I’m truthful blessed and grateful for everything we experienced unneurotic this past year. From time one, you welcomed my household and maine with unfastened arms — and for that, I’m everlastingly thankful," helium wrote successful a station connected Instagram. 

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"To the Dawg Pound: you were electric. Snow oregon shine, highs oregon lows, your vigor ne'er wavered. You reminded america each what loyalty, passion, and assemblage truly look like. This twelvemonth was 1 of growth, service, and adaptability — not conscionable for maine personally, but for my household arsenic well. And Cleveland, you played a large relation successful that. The tone of this city, the bosom of its people, and the enslaved we’ve built volition ever beryllium with us."

Winston joined the Browns to service arsenic a backup to Deshaun Watson aft spending the erstwhile 4 seasons with the New Orleans Saints. He took implicit arsenic the starter pursuing Watson’s season-ending injury, appearing successful 12 games and starting successful seven. 

Winston recorded 2,121 passing yards, 13 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions and acceptable a franchise grounds erstwhile helium threw for 497 yards with 4 touchdowns successful the Browns’ 41-32 nonaccomplishment against the Denver Broncos successful Week 13. 

Cleveland Browns backmost Jameis Winston, #5, passes against the Los Angeles Chargers successful the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled connected Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024 successful Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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"To the astonishing men and women who marque this metropolis special: convey you. You’ve made a lasting interaction connected our lives, helping america emergence to a greater calling — 1 rooted successful unity, service, and love," his station continued. "Wishing you continued blessings, prosperity, and thing but the best."

The Giants’ determination to motion Winston was the organization’s archetypal measurement successful fixing a troubled backmost room. Not agelong after, New York made a determination on Russell Wilson, signing him connected a one-year woody reportedly worthy up to $21 million. 

"I expect to beryllium the starter and to beryllium capable to travel present and stone and rotation each day," Wilson said aft the woody was official. "I deliberation this team’s truly looking for idiosyncratic to pb them successful each mode — successful presumption of the process, successful the offseason, during the season, our habits and our thought process and however we make a large winning culture." 

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That being said, New York is not shutting the doorway connected the backmost problems conscionable yet. 

Cleveland Browns backmost Jameis Winston, #5, runs disconnected the tract aft the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Cleveland Browns successful an NFL shot crippled successful Pittsburgh connected Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

With the No. 3 prime successful the draught aboriginal this month, the Giants are inactive expected to research the anticipation of drafting different backmost that would lick their semipermanent issues. 

"The look of a franchise is simply a quarterback," Giants caput manager Brian Daboll said Tuesday astatine the yearly NFL outpouring meetings. "It’s not an casual presumption to evaluate. It’s not an casual presumption to coach. It’s not an casual presumption to play. You bash the champion occupation you tin to effort to find the close 1 for your team."

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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