The moves just keep on coming for the Cleveland Browns. The list this offseason has a few big ones and probably has a few more coming. Baker Mayfield is still likely to be traded and there are a variety of free agents that would make sense for Andrew Berry to add as well.
The trade for Deshaun Watson has not been finalized yet despite the Houston Texans announcing it yesterday. One of the major reason is the salary cap. Cleveland must have enough space to take on Watson’s, approximately, $35 million cap hit before making the deal. Once the trade is completed, the team can finalize his new contract and drop his 2022 cap hit to around $10 million.
Trading Case Keenum to the Buffalo Bills freed up around $6 million in cap space and now the team is also restructuring newly acquired WR Amari Cooper’s contract:
