[Schefter]: After today, the 2022 Texans-Browns Deshaun Watson trade is now complete.

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1. Proper formatting for the picks. Also every time that schefter says “became” it means they used that pick in a trade with additional assets

   Texans receive:

   🏈2022 1st rd pick (became G Kenyon Green)

   🏈2022 4th rd pick (RB Dameon Pierce)

   🏈2023 1st rd pick (became DE Will Anderson Jr.)(packaged with Houston’s 2024 1st)

   🏈2023 3rd rd pick (became WR Tank Dell)

   🏈2024 1st rd pick (traded back with MIN)                -2024 2nd rd pick (CB Kamari Lassiter)                -2024 6th rd pick (LB Jamal Hill)

   🏈2024 4th rd pick (became S Caden Bullock)

   Browns receive:

   🏈QB Deshaun Watson

   🏈2024 6th round pick (included in Jerry Jeudy trade)

2. I can live with that

3. If Deshaun and Jeudy can link up, we’re fine. If not, no bueno

4. If they get to say that pick became Will Anderson we get to say that 6th became Jerry Jeudy.

5. I mean nobody would say the Browns won this trade but also the vitriol for Watson is the only reason anyone cares. The Texans could have just as easily botched all the picks and this wouldn’t get brought up the way it does. However, early analysis would suggest the Texans nailed some of those picks and it’s firepower for someone who wants the Browns/Watson to fail. That doesn’t even take into account that the Texans #2 own overall pick of Stroud is the best ammunition for the Texans success and has nothing to do with the Browns.

6. 2022 that pick was after the WR rush for Wilson/Olave so it’s not like we missed them

   2023 that pick ended up in Detroit and used in Gibbs, we have Chubb so really we missed in JSN later in the draft maybe Jack Campbell but I doubt AB takes a LB round 1, we didn’t give them 3 OA they had to trade up

   2024 too soon to tell wasn’t upset by who was in that range

   Then the mid rounders becoming Dell and Pierce is just great work by the Texans scouting staff

   Not a crippling trade as some made it out to be we’ve maintained a deep roster and cap flexibility

   Just get a couple deep playoff runs with a shot at a ring and it’ll end up being a fine trade

   It was clear keeping baker wouldn’t have happened so it’s impossible to know what if we didn’t get Watson, do we panic trade for Carr? Do we bottom out and sell the farm for CJ? Does Baker come back in 2022 without an extension and a FO/Coaching staff and locker room that wasn’t as buddy buddy as we all thought? Can’t just guess that it would’ve been smooth sailing then we land Wilson/Olave or make a trade elsewhere.

   Who knows who cares this is the team we have now, go win

7. Thank fucking god

8. Just a reminder that the NFL let the Texans escape any punishment for their role in enabling Watson.

9. No it isn’t. We still have to get rid of that piece of shit.

10. This is what I hate about sports media. They got 1.5 good players from us with our picks. Claiming they got Anderson is like claiming we got jeudy from their pick, it doesn’t work like that. They packaged their pick and ours to get him so that only counts as a half. Only player they got straight up from trading us that’s good is tank dell and that’s a 3rd round pick….

11. I’m just glad we have a first round pick again, love the draft and I hate how this trade took us out of it for 3 years.

12. Nope. The trade will not be complete until the impact of all those draft picks stops hurting us in the future. Nearly every successful team has a long list of their first rounders that are still with the team. So, unless we actually win a super bowl, I’d that this trade was an unequivocal failure since its going to be hurting us for another decade, otherwise.

13. The trade itself may be over but the impact on both franchises will likely last another 10 years.

    It’s simple, if Watson does not win us a SB it’s been a marked failure by any metric. He was brought here for one reason. We could have had competent QBing with Baker or Jacoby.

    We bet the farm for a SB. That’s the metric.

14. They left out “Watson successfully threw the ball 40 yds this week”.

15. People calling AB a “god” in the draft day threads lol

16. They got 2 good players out of the haul. Just shows once more what a lottery the draft is.

    Purely football speaking, I am not a fan of the trade, never was, but at least i can understand it. People, imo, vastly overexaggerate the impact on the Browns, however.

17. So far the trade has been an absolute disaster in my mind.

    Next season will tell a lot.

    The only silver lining so far is we don’t have any 1st round picks to give out big contracts.

18. How did they both pants us and give us an atomic wedgie at the same time

19. Can’t wait to see how he does in Cleveland

20. Moving Watson also led to Texans getting Stroud which seems somewhat relevant from a football perspective on their end lol