Josh Rosen has a brand new dwelling — at the very least for coaching camp.

Rosen is signing a one-year cope with the Cleveland Browns, NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport and James Palmer reported.

Cleveland nonetheless would not know if or how lengthy Deshaun Watson may be suspended this season, and is including Rosen as insurance coverage for its quarterback room forward of the beginning of camp. Watson, who has been accused by a number of ladies of sexual assault and misconduct throughout therapeutic massage remedy periods, faces potential self-discipline from the NFL following its impartial investigation into whether or not he violated the league’s personal-conduct coverage and a subsequent disciplinary listening to.

Rosen’s signing, at minimal, fills the Browns’ want for a camp arm. That is one finish of the spectrum when judging Cleveland’s rationale on this addition. The opposite finish of such a spectrum is the Browns bringing Rosen in to compete for the backup job behind Jacoby Brissett, who’s subsequent in line behind Watson to start out at quarterback for the Browns in 2022.

If Watson receives a suspension that’s longer than half of the season, Brissett would theoretically find yourself beginning underneath heart for almost all of the marketing campaign. And through such a suspension, Cleveland would want two extra quarterbacks behind Brissett, with one being Rosen and the opposite being offseason signing Joshua Dobbs.

Rosen’s addition provides him an opportunity to compete with Dobbs for this function whereas additionally receiving a full coaching camp to study Cleveland’s offense.

The previous No. 10 general decide of the 2018 draft arrives simply weeks after the No. 1 decide from that very same class, Baker Mayfield, departed Cleveland through a commerce to Carolina. Rosen has bounced across the league for a lot of the final 4 years, beginning with Arizona earlier than the Cardinals solid him apart in favor of Kyler Murray. He landed in Miami, then moved to San Francisco earlier than signing with Atlanta to exchange A.J. McCarron, who had suffered a season-ending knee damage in the course of the 2021 preseason.

McCarron and Rosen each labored out for Cleveland on Thursday. Evidently, the Browns most well-liked Rosen, the previous UCLA star who has a contemporary probability to show he is price a roster spot within the NFL. How lengthy he would possibly occupy such a spot stays to be seen.