Joe Schobert is a pending free agent once the Cleveland Browns’ season ends. The linebacker is having a fantastic season, setting career-highs in impact plays like PDs (9), interceptions (4) and TFLs (6), and he’ll set his career-high for solo tackles with one more in Week 17.

Yet it’s uncertain if Schobert will be in the Browns’ plans for 2020 and beyond. The team locked up center JC Tretter midseason to help him avoid free agency, but there have been no such overtures to Schobert.

The veteran LB reflected on the idea that Sunday’s loss to Baltimore might be the last time he suits up for the Browns in front of the Dawg Pound.

“When you get home, you think about it, definitely, it was a possibility or it is a possibility, but I don’t look too far ahead in the future that way, so we’ll see what happens,” Schobert said.

He was then asked about any progress on a potential new contract. His somber tone said more than the simple words.

“I haven’t heard anything,” Schobert said.

Schobert figures to be in high demand as arguably the best off-ball LB on the market. Recent contracts signed by comparable players are in the $13-$15 million per season ballpark, with more than half of the money guaranteed. The Browns do have the cap room to sign him, but Schobert might not be a priority.

He would like to be back, nonetheless.

“There’s a certain amount of respect there, there’s a certain amount of pride in trying to turn it around and play for the team, play for the city and be a successful team,” Schobert responded when asked about being part of the long-term solution in Cleveland.