Source: Browns restructure Deshaun Watson's deal to get cap compliant

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The Cleveland Browns have once again restructured quarterback Deshaun Watson's contract, a source told ESPN's Field Yates, clearing nearly $36 million in salary cap space that will make Cleveland cap compliant ahead of the new league year.

Before the restructuring of Watson's deal Thursday morning, the Browns were about $22 million over the cap.

Watson, 29, has two years remaining on the five-year, fully guaranteed $230 million contract he signed in March 2022 and is still owed $46 million in each of the next two seasons. He has been rehabbing at the Browns' practice facility in Berea, Ohio, after re-tearing his right Achilles tendon three months after the initial injury in…