5 reasons Brock Osweiler trade to Cleveland Browns is great
By John Buhler
2. How is this not a win-win? (Okay, maybe a lose-lose, but…)
Trading for Osweiler was way too brilliant of a move for the Browns to make. If he’s good, Cleveland is going to love like the Browns did when Brian Sipe and Bernie Kosar were under center. They’ve had so many bad quarterbacks since 1999, it’s beyond embarrassing how desperate they are for quarterbacking talent.
Should Osweiler struggle, then all it does is help the Browns gain another top-five pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. The quarterbacking class will be presumably headlined by USC’s Darnold, but other guys like UCLA’s Josh Rosen and Oklahoma State’s Mason Rudolph could be intriguing.
What if the Browns cut Osweiler immediately? Well, that’s not a terrible move either. Cleveland can afford to take the cap hit and they still get the Texans’ second-round pick in 2018. That was the whole point of accepting the trade from the Texans in the first place.
So Osweiler either makes the Browns good, keeps them terrible again, or they just get a cool second-round pick out of the deal by eating his ridiculous contract. Houston gave up a lot in that trade with the Browns just to sign presumably often-injured Tony Romo. This is a win-win, or maybe a lose-lose move however you want to dissect the Osweiler trade.