Experts are split on if The Cleveland Browns will trade for Jimmy Garoppolo

Not even the experts agree on Jimmy Garoppolo coming to the Cleveland Browns.

The Cleveland Browns are waiting in limbo until they find out what’s going to happen to Deshaun Watson, who a judge ruled committed four counts of sexual assault against four massage therapists. The NFL wants him to sit out a full year, at least, and it seems they’ll likely get that. The Browns, knowing their window to win with this team has been accelerated due to the trade for Watson, are now considering every option.

Including going after Jimmy Garoppolo and his notorious noodle arm. You can argue until your blue in the face about how good Garoppolo is, but the 49ers lost so much faith in him that they made a franchise-defining move to get a project player to replace him.

The Browns at least got one of the six best quarterbacks to replace Baker Mayfield, the 49ers may have gotten the next Drew Henson. If they believed they could win with Garoppolo, they wouldn’t have made that trade.

Yet, we’re supposed to believe that he can help the Browns win a Super Bowl? That is HI-larious.

Even the “experts” don’t know what to believe. ESPN’s Bill Barnwell believes that the Browns make “total sense” to land Garoppolo, while NFL Insider Ian Rapoport believes that the Browns aren’t that interested in him.

So which is it, guys?

The Cleveland Browns aren’t trading for Jimmy Garoppolo

Read what I wrote. The Browns won’t trade for Garoppolo. Why would they? He’s got a $27 million contract, and the 49ers want something absurd for him, like a second-round pick, or maybe a seventh-round pick. I think I heard they’d take a Super Soaker. All of that is too much for him, especially the Super Soaker.

That’s mine, dang it.

We thought the Browns had no leverage for trading Mayfield, Mayfield at least has a “what if?” element to him. He’s young, has had two great years to his name, is notoriously a big-play quarterback and if he can just find a system that wants to use him to his strength, he could excel.

That’s not Garoppolo.

The 49ers can’t keep him, he’s too expensive. They’re either going to have to cut him or trade him at some point. They’ll end up cutting him at some point.

That’s when the Browns should re-evaluate him. Garoppolo isn’t a guy worth trading assets for, but signing him for league minimum?

I can rock with that.