The NFL's league owners meeting is set to take place over the next few days where they will vote on changing the leagues rule's around trading draft picks. The Cleveland Browns have proposed giving teams the choice to trade picks five years into the future rather than the current three. I don't expect this is because they believe they will get more than three first rounders in a trade for Myles Garrett but it could make trading three first rounders more palatable for teams.
The Cleveland Browns have seen first hand the damage of losing three consecutive first round picks. The best talent in the draft comes from the first two rounds where a team should be selecting starters for the next eight years. Losing the ability to add cheap young high quality talent likely has a bigger impact on the holes within the Browns roster than the $46m a year they have had to pay on Watson's contract.
What a team could be willing to do is split the three first round picks over five years, this could work in favor of both sides in the trade. Meaning it could looking like this:
Year 1 - First Round Pick
Year 2 - Nothing
Year 3 - First Round Pick
Year 4 - Nothing
Year 5 - First Round Pick
For the team giving up the picks and getting Myles Garrett, they spread the loss of picks over five years, giving themselves a couple of years where they could potentially trade down and add additional picks in the following year to balance out the loss of trade assets.
For the Browns they can potentially get three first round picks rather than say two and a day two pick. Spreading them out also gives the Browns a better chance that one of these picks are a high pick. If they make a deal with the Rams, Eagles or Chiefs then the chances they are good for the short term is higher than how they might perform five years into the future. At that stage Garrett is significantly older, their quarterback might not be performing to the same level and their coaching staff might have been turned over and under achieving.