Texans try to turn Osweiler into Romo after trade shocker

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Texans will recieve a 2017 fourth-round Draft pick, while giving up Osweiler, a 2018 second-round Draft pick and a 2017 sixth-round pick.

So instead of becoming an unemployed 27-year-old with $37 million next year, Osweiler will now quarterback a team that hasn’t made the playoffs since 2002.

Moving Osweiler, signed to a four-year, $73 million deal in free agency last March, saved the Texans $10 million against this year’s salary cap. Now the Browns have the quarterback they desperately were looking for, but does this mean that the Texans are all-in on going after Cowboys’ QB Tony Romo? Getting rid of Osweiler’s $16 million contract for this season gives the Texans the financial leverage to bring Romo in under the cap.

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The move was a salary dump for the Texans and for the Browns a move to hit the spending floor set forth by the National Football League year to year.

Not so fast. Per Rapoport, Cleveland may simply cut bait on Osweiler, absorbing that contract but not actually worrying about how he fits on the roster.

“The Browns have the ammunition to acquire Jimmy Garoppolo and will try to put together a strong package that the Patriots will accept”, Cabot writes. Osweiler isn’t the Browns’ long-term answer, so he will probably be elsewhere in 2017, although VP of football operations Sashi Brown said Osweiler will be given the chance to compete. He signed with Houston as a free agent previous year after four seasons in Denver.

However, the Denver Broncos weren’t sold on Osweiler, who signed with the Texans in March 2016.