Geez you paint a grim picture... No matter how you slice it, if Watson is out for the year we are screwed.
Yeah...it's a boom or bust deal. Take a look at this site:
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cleveland-browns/contracts/Go to the "Expires" column and click on that word...it'll sort by the year the contract expires...then scroll down and look at all the 2023 players listed. If Watson is out a year - or more - we will be/get desperate for a starting QB...and we have no 1st and gave up the better 3rd for the 2023 draft.
This "All-In" move to get DW looks almost like a hail-mary to save jobs...jobs that weren't even on-the-line (yet)...but now many of those jobs may very-much be so.