John Dorsey is running the Cleveland Browns now, but he’s spending the goodies left to him by former executive Sashi Brown. One of those was the No. 35 overall selection in the 2018 NFL Draft that was used Friday to take Georgia running back Nick Chubb.
The Browns got Nick Chubb from the Texans by eating Brock Osweiler’s $16 million salary
Worth it.
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The cost of getting the pick from the Houston Texans was to take on the huge contract of noted shitty quarterback Brock Osweiler in 2017.
Cleveland received the second-round pick, a sixth-round pick, Osweiler, and the quarterback’s $16 million cap hit. The Texans took a fourth-round pick just to get rid of him.
Osweiler, 27, competed for the starting job in Cleveland and was eventually released after rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer beat him out for the role in training camp and preseason. Kizer then went 0-15 as a starter.
But the Browns didn’t add the veteran passer to upgrade the quarterback room, anyway. Osweiler was just there to give them a second-round pick and it turned into Chubb.
Chubb was a two-time All-SEC running back who’s explosive, strong and should provide a boost in 2018. Paying a $16 million cap hit in 2017 to get him may prove to be a brilliant move.
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