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Per multiple reports, the Browns are bringing in the backups to
have a ready plan if the NFL suspends Watson for multiple games.
Watson met with league investigators for three days in Delaware
earlier this month to discuss allegations of sexual misconduct.
Pro Football Talk reported a multi-game suspension was likely
but not more than eight games.
Watson, acquired by the Browns from the Houston Texans for
multiple draft picks, could reportedly agree not to appeal if
the NFL opts against a season-long suspension.
Cleveland has prepared to be without Watson by signing former
NFL starter Jacoby Brissett. He would be No. 1 if Watson is
erased from the depth chart for any period of time, general
manager Andrew Berry said earlier this month. Josh Dobbs is the
No. 3 quarterback on the roster entering camp.
But behind Brissett and Dobbs, the Browns are kicking the tires
on Rosen, who was with the Atlanta Falcons in 2021. The 2018
first-round pick of the Cardinals was traded to the Miami
Dolphins following Arizona's selection of Kyler Murray.
The 31-year-old McCarron was Watson's backup with the Houston
Texans in 2019 and 2020.
McCarron, a fifth-round pick in 2014, has played in 16 career
games with the Cincinnati Bengals, Raiders (then in Oakland) and
Texans. He tore his ACL in the 2021 preseason with the Falcons.
--Field Level Media
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