Deshaun Watson's contract is one of the worst I have ever seen... It is WAY worse than what the Saints have done. 

The Browns cap hits for Watson currently sits like this:
2025 72.9M
2026 72.9M
2027 17.9M (Dead Cap)
2028 8.9M (Dead Cap)

Dead Cap means Watson won't be on the team in 2027 & 2028, but the Browns will still be on the hook for $26M in those two years because they took cheaper cap hits in Watsons first few years. 

However, if the Browns want to get 2025 & 2026 in control so they have any hope, they'll likely need to bring Watsons cap hits WAY down.. $40M in cap hits would give them some hope. But that means you'll push $32.9M from each of 2025 & 2026 to future years. 

The Watson cap hits would look something like this:
2025 40M
2026 40M
2027 27.9M (Dead Cap)
2028 18.9M (Dead Cap)
2029 18M (Dead Cap)
2030 16M (Dead Cap)
2031 11.8M (Dead Cap)

So the Browns will be on the hook for Deshaun Watson for many many years assuming they don't extend him of course. The Cowboys are also in a similar spot with Dak Prescott. Prescott is owed an avg of 72.6M in cap in each of the next 4 years. Will be interesting to see how these teams address this.