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Brock Osweiler to Cleveland: Big time move!
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:42 pm
Per Shefter :
NFL stunner: Texans trade QB Brock Osweiler AND a 2018 second-round pick to Cleveland for the Browns to take Osweiler’s $16M salary of Houston’s books, per league sources. The move clears out millions in salary-cap space for Houston to intensify efforts to sign former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, per sources. To be exact, Houston saves $16 million in cash and $10 million against their cap this season. The Texans also will get the Browns’ fourth-round pick this year in exchange for their own 6th-round pick. So Cleveland gets Osweiler’s contract, a 2018 second-round pick and a 2017 sixth-round pick, and Houston gets Cleveland’s 2017 fourth-round pick, saves $10 million in salary-cap space and $16 million in cash. Cleveland is not committed to keeping Osweiler and is likely to try to trade him, per sources. If so, it would turn into a basketball-like trade in which NBA teams routinely trade contracts to get them off their books; only it rarely, if ever, happens in the NFL. It’s hard to remember in the salary-cap era another team when a team traded a contract to get it off its books. But Houston was so anxious to rid itself of Osweiler and move on to its next quarterbacking chapter that it is giving Cleveland extra picks to take him and his contract. The Browns headed into this free-agent signing period with over $100 million worth of salary-cap space and would struggle to spend it all. Now they can devote some of it to Osweiler’s contract and acquiring extra draft picks from Houston. But this is one of the most, if not the most, creative trade in NFL history.
NFL stunner: Texans trade QB Brock Osweiler AND a 2018 second-round pick to Cleveland for the Browns to take Osweiler’s $16M salary of Houston’s books, per league sources. The move clears out millions in salary-cap space for Houston to intensify efforts to sign former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, per sources. To be exact, Houston saves $16 million in cash and $10 million against their cap this season. The Texans also will get the Browns’ fourth-round pick this year in exchange for their own 6th-round pick. So Cleveland gets Osweiler’s contract, a 2018 second-round pick and a 2017 sixth-round pick, and Houston gets Cleveland’s 2017 fourth-round pick, saves $10 million in salary-cap space and $16 million in cash. Cleveland is not committed to keeping Osweiler and is likely to try to trade him, per sources. If so, it would turn into a basketball-like trade in which NBA teams routinely trade contracts to get them off their books; only it rarely, if ever, happens in the NFL. It’s hard to remember in the salary-cap era another team when a team traded a contract to get it off its books. But Houston was so anxious to rid itself of Osweiler and move on to its next quarterbacking chapter that it is giving Cleveland extra picks to take him and his contract. The Browns headed into this free-agent signing period with over $100 million worth of salary-cap space and would struggle to spend it all. Now they can devote some of it to Osweiler’s contract and acquiring extra draft picks from Houston. But this is one of the most, if not the most, creative trade in NFL history.
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According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the Browns are considering releasing Brock Osweiler.
This report comes just 20 minutes after the Browns acquired Osweiler from Houston in a bombshell trade nobody saw coming. It looks like there's a good chance Osweiler will never play a down for Cleveland as the Browns will simply absorb his $16 million salary and move on. Cleveland has all the cap space in the world so the $16 million hit isn't a big deterrent. Perhaps the Browns will package their first-round pick with the 2018 second-rounder they just received from Houston in a trade for Patriots QB Jimmy Garoppolo.
This post was edited on 3/9/17 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:43 pm to longhorn22
I don't understand this move at all. Would've rather gone after Jimmy G
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:44 pm to longhorn22
Guess this means Romo to Houston then?
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:44 pm to longhorn22
Osweiler was shite with solid offensive weapons in Houston
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:44 pm to tylercsbn9
Cleveland going to Cleveland, at least they still have Lebron and Drew Carey
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:44 pm to longhorn22
just got the nfl mobile notification
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:45 pm to longhorn22
This makes no sense for Cleveland
Eta: wait I read it wrong
Eta: wait I read it wrong
This post was edited on 3/9/17 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:45 pm to longhorn22
Cleveland makes a blockbuster trade and somehow ends up worse than before. Only in Cleveland.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:46 pm to longhorn22
Cleveland just got rewarded for taking on someone's mistake that has a lively arm and can sit behind Cleveland's new dominant line and maybe make downfield plays.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:46 pm to bwallcubfan
Good move by Cleveland. Pick up a second to take a worthless QB off of the Texans books.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:46 pm to imAMAZING
That's actually smart by Cleveland. They basically bought a draft pick.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 2:46 pm to longhorn22
This is why Cleveland will never be revelant
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