In the Last Season of 2022 Cleveland Browns finished last place and that was the 14^th time in 20 years of the period and situation was not in their favor at all in any way.

The irony of it all is that the Cleveland Browns finished in 2022 where they very likely would have finished even if they hadn’t made the transaction, despite receiving six draught picks, including three first-round picks, from the Houston Texans in return for Deshaun Watson

The costly, sensational deal for Watson, which, as of right now, means Cleveland won’t choose in the first round of the NFL Draft until 2025, had little impact on the Browns’ 2022 campaign. Even it was the proved to be very expensive trade for Watson.

Watson was naturally rusty when he returned to start the Browns’ last six games after serving his 11-game ban for breaching the NFL’s Player Conduct Policy and playing in NFL games for the first time in nearly two years.

Cleveland won three of those six games, falling to the Bengals, Saints, and Steelers while defeating Houston, Baltimore, and Washington. With a completion percentage of 58%, Watson threw five interceptions and seven touchdown passes. He earned a 79.1 quarterback rating. And it wasn’t much of the brilliant and satisfactory to him and fans.

Statistics-wise, the performance was just average, but that was to be expected, and Watson’s prolonged absence from the game was much to blame. There is no reason to think that in 2023, Watson, who is 27 years old, won’t regain his position as one of the NFL’s top quarterbacks, barring injuries.

Hope of the Cleveland Browns and Deshaun Watson?

Statistics-wise, the performance was just average, but that was to be expected, and Watson’s prolonged absence from the game was much to blame. There is no reason to think that in 2023, Watson, who is 27 years old, won’t regain his position as one of the NFL’s top quarterbacks, barring injuries.

It’s possible that Watson could have played enough games this season to make a difference in the Browns’ effort to make the postseason had his ban not been as extended as it was. However, the final six games of a season that was already unsatisfactory weren’t quite enough. Watson and the Browns are solely to blame for this, not anyone else. He and they both contributed to this situation by doing the same thing.

Was the Trade for Watson proved beneficial?

The Browns would have needed to find another starting quarterback after parting ways with Baker Mayfield if they had not traded for Watson. We will never be able to determine who or what that might have been.

But the Browns did what they did, and there are no fast cuts to constructing a winning club in any sport. Even the obvious ones carry some danger. This season’s “Waiting for Deshaun” portion of the schedule taught the Browns that lesson.

Jacoby Brissett, a backup quarterback in the NFL, was assigned to fill in for Watson, and he had what amounted to a career year, or at least a career two-thirds of a year. With 12 passing touchdowns, two rushing touchdowns, and six other touchdowns in his 11 starts, Brissett completed 64% of his passes.

Brissett moved back to his backup position when Watson returned and started against his former team on December 4 in Houston (you can’t make this stuff up), and the Browns played hopscotch in the final six games of the season: a win, a loss, a win, a loss, a win, and a win.

Victory may be? After Lost Season.

Consider the Browns’ example. They have some knowledge of lost seasons.

This game was lost for a variety of reasons, but one of the largest was that it wasted another season of the Browns’ offence, which, in contrast to the defense, is stacked with playmakers and linemen with rapidly approaching expiration dates.

For instance, running back Nick Chubb has carried for 6,341 yards and 52 touchdowns in his five years with the Browns, but he has never scored a rushing touchdown in a postseason game.

The Browns’ season was essentially suspended in 2022 while Watson served his 11-game ban. Brissett gave it his all. However, backups are there for a purpose, and the longer Brissett played, the more of a backup he appeared to be.

The Browns did not learn the length of Watson’s suspension until close to the start of the season. Long before that, they began to get ready. On March 18, Cleveland made a trade for Watson. They signed Brissett as a free agent seven days later.

The length of Watson’s suspension was expected to be crucial to the Browns’ season. The number of games may have been four, five, or six. Twelve wasn’t.

It was eleven.

The outcome was essentially guaranteed by that figure, and it wasn’t very much. A 7-10 record and no postseason appearances, which the Browns could have achieved even without Watson.

The Next Season How will it go for Deshaun Watson ?

As he is growing in his game we hope that Deshaun Watson will prove fruitful for the Cleveland Browns.

and we all will wait for the next as you so.