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What the Texans could do, though, is trade Osweiler to a team who would be willing to pay his $16 million base salary. Houston would be left with a far more palatable $9 million in dead money on its 2017 cap. The problem, of course, is that nobody would want to pay Osweiler $16 million for the 2017 season unless there were dramatic incentives and no better options around. The Browns could fit both of those shoes. They've repeatedly shown how significantly they value draft picks, are willing to be patient to receive those picks and have no clear path to a starting quarterback. Osweiler has been a mess in Houston, but he looked competent in Denver during the 2015 season behind a middling offensive line. Hypothetically, the Browns could offer a seventh-round pick to the Texans in exchange for Osweiler, a 2017 third-round pick and a 2018 first-rounder. Cleveland might not want Osweiler enough to find that to be worth $16 million, and Houston might not be willing to trade away two draft picks to move on from an expensive mistake. But the logic of using short-term cap space to trade for useful draft assets is there.
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http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...re-hope-future
From a piece last month on the Browns. The only way we get out of part of Brock's salary is to convince someone to pay him $16 million. This simply isn't happening. Any team making a deal to get rid of their own unwanted player is better off keeping or cutting their unwanted player. So we are left with paying draft picks (hopefully not as much as this author suggests) for someone to park him for us. And we still owe $9 million this year if we do it. If we cut Brock he counts $25 million instead of $16 million.
So our guys will bring back BO and pair him with a rookie in training camp. They will all talk themselves into him improving in the offseason, and thus our season will probably be over in March when it's official we're keeping him. The only hope I see is if we pay him $16 million to be the inactive 3rd QB (or IR him to save both parties the embarrassment). Then we draft a QB in round 1 or 2 and move on like he doesn't exist as anything more than a $16 million cap penalty. But that route involves admitting we were wrong, so I bet he enters the year as the de facto starter with a rookie and Savage in a training camp 'battle'.