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Browns left tackle Joe Thomas says he’s happy new regime hasn’t traded him: ‘It wouldn’t have surprised me’

BEREA: Joe Thomas belongs on the Mount Rushmore of the expansion era Browns, but the offensive lineman with a strong case for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame still thought the new regime could trade him this offseason.

Thomas is glad he hasn’t been shipped away, despite the 47-97 record he has endured since the Browns drafted him third overall in 2007.

“I wouldn’t have been surprised if I woke any morning and the phone rang and said, ‘Hey, you got traded somewhere,’ just because of all the chatter that went on, the number of veterans that were on this team that got released, obviously the young movement that is going on right now in Berea,” Thomas said Wednesday after the fifth practice of organized team activities.