NFL Draft 2017: Deshaun Watson visits Chiefs, Browns this week

The Browns and Chiefs are both conducting personal visits with Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson this week.

The Cleveland Browns and Kansas City Chiefs are two teams connected with a likely early choice of a quarterback in the 2017 NFL Draft held later this month. It’s not a surprise, then, to see both teams doing their homework with an in-person visit with Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson this week.

Watson is one of the draft’s top quarterbacks, along with DeShone Kizer of Notre Dame, Mitchell Trubisky of North Carolina and Patrick Mahomes of Texas Tech. Watson comes with tremendous intangibles, including strong leadership skills, championship experience and plenty of starting reps for the Tigers. He also has several clutch performances to point at, including his best games coming against teams like Alabama.

The Chiefs would likely need Watson to fall past some of the aforementioned options to have a chance at drafting him, since K.C. doesn’t pick until No. 27 overall. The team has 10 draft picks to work with, however, including compensatory picks, so there’s some ammunition with which John Dorsey can move up, but the first round is costly to move too high, so Watson will likely need to hit the 20s before the Chiefs can afford him.

Watson had 41 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions last year for Clemson. Watson also completed 67.4% of his passes in his collegiate career.