Browns offered fourth-round pick for Kirk Cousins

The Cleveland Browns were interested in acquiring Washington Redskins backup Kirk Cousins

Even though Brian Hoyer wasn’t bad in 2013 and they drafted Johnny Manziel last offseason, the Cleveland Browns clearly weren’t that happy about their quarterback situation going into the 2014 season. It was reported that before the 2014 season, the Browns called up the Washington Redskins about the availability of Kirk Cousins.

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After all, the logic of trading for Cousins made sense considering Kyle Shanahan was his offensive coordinator in 2013 in Washington where Cousins did have some success when he started.

According to the Washington Post, the Browns offered a fourth-round pick for Cousins.

Although it may not sound that far-fetched, trading a fourth-round pick is serious in today’s NFL. A fourth-round pick is a mid-round pick and it has a ton of value and implications towards team’s draft boards. Despite that, the Browns were in desperate need of a quarterback and Cousins, at the time, seemed to fit the bill.

However, based on what was seen in 2014, Cousins really doesn’t seem to have a future as a starting quarterback at the professional level.

This attempt by the Browns, though, just goes to show that when teams are desperate to fill a position, especially a position as meaningful as the quarterback one, they will do whatever they can and whatever they have to do to fill that position.

In comparison to what the Redskins wanted, instead of a fourth-round pick, the article would go on saying that the Redskins would’ve been willing to give up Cousins for a second-round pick. In 2014, when Robert Griffin III wasn’t playing well and the Redskins were already out of it, it wasn’t Cousins that improved his draft stock.

Instead, it was Colt McCoy that turned heads.

Now going into the 2015 season, Cousins will be entering the last year of his rookie contract. With Griffin III seemingly being the starter, it will be interesting to see whether the Redskins will look to move Cousins in exchange for a draft pick.

That draft pick may not be a fourth-round pick, but if there is a team that might be interested in him, that team could be the Browns as they still do not have a long-term option at the quarterback position.