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As NFL.com framed it, "Cleveland's wheeling and dealing Friday didn't end with the impending trade for Jarvis Landry." Nope. It turns out the Browns have also set up a deal to trade for Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor.

Cleveland will send a third-round pick (No. 65 overall) to the Bills in exchange for the quarterback.

And another trade for the Browns: ESPN's Adam Schefter reports the Packers have informed CB Damarious Randall that he is being traded to Cleveland.

But it's the moves on offense that are of immediate interest to fantasy owners.

As Profootballtalk.com's Josh Alper suggested, Taylor leaving the Bills doesn’t come as a surprise as the team never fully committed to him as their starter last season or this offseason.

Taylor did an excellent job of protecting the ball and running with it, but he struggles to throw it, and the Bills' passing offense has suffered because of it. Nathaniel Peterman, who performed poorly in the brief playing time he received this season, appears to be nothing more than a career backup, but he will have a spot on the roster in 2018.

With Taylor gone, the Bills will seek either a rookie, a veteran free agent, or quite likely both. Worth noting, Buffalo now has two picks in each of the first three rounds of the draft.

PFT's Michael David Smith suggests that with all those picks, the Bills may package some together to make a run at one of the top quarterbacks in this year’s draft: USC’s Sam Darnold, Wyoming’s Josh Allen, UCLA’s Josh Rosen or Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield. All four of those quarterbacks may be off the board before the Bills’ first pick, No. 21 overall, but they could package picks together to move up and get a quarterback.

The Bills were due to pay Taylor a $6 million roster bonus at the start of the new league year, but that will now fall to the Browns.

The Browns could revisit Taylor’s deal or could use him as a bridge for a quarterback they select in this year’s draft. They could also opt to spend the first and fourth overall picks in other ways now that Taylor is in town, which is just one of the ripple effects that the trade will have on this year’s quarterback market.

AJ McCarron was linked to the Browns, but Taylor’s presence likely means he’ll be looking elsewhere along with the rest of the free agents that are about to hit the market. So even though it's safe to say the Browns still have plenty of options (including drafting a QB in the first round of April's draft), Friday gave us a better idea of what their offense is going to look like in 2018.