BEREA, Ohio -- Days after winning Super Bowl LVI, Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead showed up to the victory parade wearing a shirt with the words, “F--- them picks.”

The Cleveland Browns have yet to win their Super Bowl. But general manager Andrew Berry seems to be embracing Snead’s mantra.

On Friday, Cleveland made still another significant trade. The Browns landed three-time Pro Bowl pass-rusher Za'Darius Smith from the Minnesota Vikings. The Browns surrendered a pair of fifth-round picks (2024 and 2025) in the deal, though they did get back a 2025 sixth-round selection and a 2025 seventh-rounder.

As a result, Cleveland has only three picks left (its own second, own third and Carolina’s fifth from the Baker Mayfield trade) through the first five rounds of next year’s draft. The Browns also just completed back-to-back drafts (2022 and 2023) without a pick in either of the first two rounds.

Then again, Cleveland’s aim is no longer stockpiling picks. The Browns are trying to win now. With most of their star players entering or already in their prime seasons, the window to contend has arrived. And with every opportunity, the Browns are pushing more chips into the center of the pot to make a championship run.

Friday’s trade underscored just that.

Smith, who will soon turn 31, battled a chronic knee injury last year. Though he would finish with 10 sacks, all but 1.5 of those came during the first seven weeks of the season. This trade comes with risk for the Browns.

But given that Berry had to give up only a pair of fifth-rounders (and got a pair of Day 3 picks in return), it’s a risk well worth the gamble, even if it is a short-term move.

Smith is one of only five pass-rushers to finish with at least 10 sacks in three of the past four seasons, according to ESPN Stats & Information research; Myles Garrett is one of the others.

Next season, Smith and Garrett will have the benefit of playing off one another. Garrett faced the highest double-team rate (31.7%) of any edge defender in the league last year; yet Smith had the fourth highest double-team rate (27.9%). If Smith, as well as free-agent signee Ogbonnia Okoronkwo (who had the eighth-highest double-team rate at 22.6% last year in Houston) can take advantage of one-on-one blocking, Cleveland’s pass rush figures to be formidable.

The rest of the team should be, as well, thanks in part to all the draft picks the Browns have sent out in trades for proven players the past two offseasons.

It began with the Deshaun Watson trade last March, which cost the Browns three first-rounders plus multiple other picks. It continued Friday, with the addition of another star player in Smith.

Like it has for the Rams, the bill -- featuring a confluence of several expensive veteran contracts and few blue-chip rookie deals -- could eventually catch up with the Browns, as well.

The Rams, however, won their Super Bowl before they had to retool their roster.

The Browns now have a roster ready to make their own Super Bowl run.