It makes no sense. The amount of money the Cleveland Browns have spent on Deshaun Watson, on a fully guaranteed contract, is enormous. The cap hit just this season is $36 million. The Browns are locked in to Watson's deal, barring a trade, for the next two seasons, and still have over $167 million of unamortized hits from his deal that will hit across 2025, 2026 and 2027's caps. Yet somehow, after being destroyed throughout last week for a nonsensical rumor, the Cleveland radio host is doubling down on his premise that the Browns and Dallas Cowboys are working for a deal that would send Dak Prescott to Cleveland.
Yet, he's at it again. Bruce Drennan has reiterated his belief that the deal is in the works.
The complications of this deal coming to fruition go beyond the investment the Browns continue to suffer from their fully-guaranteed extension with Watson. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam recently added fire to the flame, admitting the extension was a mistake. But there's no escaping this deal, as trading Watson would add around $82.5 million to the Browns current cap.
The Browns currently have only $19 million in cap space.
That's what kills this deal even before getting into Prescott's no-trade clause with Dallas, and the $89 million of bonus allocation that would accelerate onto Dallas' cap if they traded him away. The fact this even needs to be explained is a mind-numbing circumstance of everyone being able to occupy space in the sports talk world.
This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Why Cowboys' Prescott nonsensical trade-to-Browns rumor makes 0 sense
