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Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch

Good Lord.

The Browns have restructured the contract of QB Deshaun Watson, converting $44.79M of his 2024 base salary into a signing bonus and creating $35.832M in cap space, per source.

Cleveland now has over $62M in cap space, the most in the entire NFL. pic.twitter.com/KC9hLWQDT8

— Field Yates (@FieldYates) August 29, 2024

I don't understand the timing of this. Are they going to trade for Aiyuk or some other high priced malcontent? Otherwise, since they already had cap space this year wouldn't they be better not restructuring and taking that $44M cap hit this season? If I understand correctly they now will be spreading the $44M cap hit over the remainder of the contract. Seems like that just wastes cap space in future years?