The Cleveland Browns tried making Deshaun Watson work, even after it was very clear that the team had made a franchise-changing error in trading for him. Watson was terrible for the Browns, on the field and off the field.

The Browns traded for Watson in March 2022 when he was facing dozens of lawsuits for sexual misconduct, but Cleveland took the chance anyway, acquiring him in a deal with the Texans and then proceeding to pay him more guaranteed money than anyone in NFL history at the time with a five-year, $230 million contract.

In fact, that's exactly what CBS Sports senior NFL writer Pete Prisco called it while responding to the owner's comments made earlier in the day. Prisco, who has covered the NFL f