The deadline for NFL teams to make tender offers to restricted free agents passed with the Browns extending three but failing to offer another.

Exclusive rights free agents Trevon Coley and Jermaine Whitehead both got their tender offers from the Browns. That comes after the team issued an original-round tender offer on restricted free agent wide receiver Rashard Higgins.

Coley has started 29 games at defensive tackle over the last two seasons since signing with the Browns as an undrafted free agent. While the team is expected to upgrade the DT spot, Coley offers cheap depth with some experience, at minimum.

Whitehead, a safety by trade, played exclusively on special teams after being acquired midseason from the Green Bay Packers.

If the Browns had not issued tender offers, Coley and Whitehead would have immediately become unrestricted free agents. That is now the status of defensive back Briean Boddy-Calhoun, who was not extended any tender offer by the team.

Boddy-Calhoun played a variety of roles in the secondary, with varying results. There were preexisting reports indicating the Browns would not offer him an extension.