{"id":16488,"date":"2025-03-06T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=16488"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:24:20","slug":"breaking-browns-get-nearly-36-million-in-cap-space-by-restructuring-deshaun-watsons-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=16488","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Browns get nearly $36 million in cap space by restructuring Deshaun Watson\u2019s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_3685,h_2072,x_0,y_71\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/si\/01jnnw1rthxfakn1nf4n.jpg\" alt=\"Watson is recovering from two Achilles tears.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Deshaun Watson may not play any games for the Browns during the 2025 season, but the quarterback\u2019s contract still impacts the team\u2019s offseason plans.<\/p>\n<p>Field Yates of ESPN reports that the Browns have restructured Watson\u2019s deal\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">in order to create<\/span>\u00a0nearly $36 million in cap space for the coming season. Watson\u2019s $46 million salary for 2025 is fully guaranteed and he\u2019ll receive it as a bonus rather than a salary.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns have restructured Watson\u2019s deal a number of times and added void years in order to spread out his cap hit \u2014 which was set to be over $72.7 million \u2014 as much as possible. He has a guaranteed salary of $46 million for the 2026 season as well.<\/p>\n<p>Watson tore his Achilles last season and then had surgery in January after rupturing it again. That leaves the Browns in need of another quarterback this year and it adds to the many regrets the franchise must feel about trading for Watson and giving him a fully guaranteed five-year deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cap-clearing season:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Browns<\/a> did a simple restructure on Deshaun Watson\u2019s contract, clearing $35.8 million <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cowboys<\/a> did a simple restructure on Dak Prescott\u2019s contract, clearing $36.6M<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Seahawks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Seahawks<\/a>\u2019 release of WR Tyler Lockett cleared $17M<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dolphins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dolphins<\/a> OT Terron Armstead\u2019s salary\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sDIXp9DQPF\">pic.twitter.com\/sDIXp9DQPF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1897644138184470820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_hjmj7z389\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland is getting their books ready ahead of NFL free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-browns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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