Here’s Why The Panthers Are Trying To Trade Christian McCaffrey For Deshaun Watson

The story of a fake Deshaun Watson for Christian McCaffrey trade rocked the sports news world this week. Now while the trade idea is totally unofficial, it was thrown out by a beat writer who is close enough to the team to have some idea what they could be thinking about doing.

Here is the trade idea:

“The Panthers will do whatever it takes to get Deshaun Watson, and that includes giving up three first-round draft picks and (running back) Christian McCaffrey,” Newton said.” Owner David Tepper wants to win a Super Bowl. He’s made that clear. He understand it takes a marquee quarterback to do that. If you look at recent history, outside of Patrick Mahomes, the quickest way to do that is to trade for a marquee quarterback and not draft one in the first round. Just ask Tampa Bay.”

Now I doubt this will happen because the Texans would want to get a quarterback back if they trade one of the best quarterbacks in the league. Yes they could draft one but why go in the draft when you have a known commodity? That alone makes the trade unlikely for me.

I think the Texans will massage the relationship with Watson until the season starts and not trade him.