The Cleveland Browns are no longer a football black hole—and not just because they sucked for a long time—for NFL free agents, the place where one knew your career would spaghettify by going there. They actually have a potentially competent team, and players have actually begun to choose going there, even if they aren’t from Cleveland.
Sometimes the allure of a great quarterback helps, even if he is (allegedly) quite a horrible person—or (allegedly) a person who has done quite horrible things to quite a number of people. The acquisition of Deshaun Watson, for example, is what convinced Jadeveon Clowney to re-sign, he told reporters.