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Jimmy Haslam Understands Trade For Deshaun Watson ‘The Most Consequential’ Decision He’s Made As Browns Owner

You don’t guarantee a man $230 million and give up three first-round draft picks in order for the right to give him that money and employ him without expecting him to have a dramatic impact on your business, for the positive.

That’s the dice roll the Cleveland Browns took on three-time Pro Bowl quarterback Deshaun Watson, which owner Jimmy Haslam understands is “the most consequential” decision that he has ever made during his 10-plus years in that capacity with the organization, via Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal. “We spent more time working on it than anything else”.