Two Years Later, Four Biggest Texan Benefits From the Deshaun Watson Trade

It's hard to believe that it's been over two years now since the Houston Texans , more specifically general manager Nick Caserio , were able to pull off what has turned out to be one of the great heists in NFL history — the trade of quarterback Deshaun Watson to the Cleveland Browns.

If you click on four different articles talking about the return on the deal, you'll probably read about four different returns. Needless to say, the Texans are happy to be out of the Deshaun Watson business, a business that will cost the Browns $64 million in salary cap space in each of the next three seasons. Oh, and did I mention Watson is coming off shoulder surgery that ended his 2024 season early? Well, that's a fact, too.

So instead of trying to list players the Texans received directly and indirectly from those picks, I choose to list what the trade allowed the Texans do definitively do over the last two seasons. Here are four key things:Simply put, without the Deshaun Watson trade, Will Anderson is not a Houston Texan. The 3rd overall pick in the 2023 draft was acquired as a move up from Cleveland's first round pick in that draft, 12th overall.

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