How will the T.J. Watt situation with the Pittsburgh Steelers finally get solved? ESPN has a Packers idea.

The T.J. Watt situation with the Pittsburgh Steelers is an ugly mess; there is no argument there.

And ESPN has come up with yet another possible solution, this one with a homey twist.

Reporter Jeremy Fowler has suggested the big solution is a trade to the Green Bay Packers.

What is the logic?

In part, it’s because Watt — who has led the NFL in sacks in three of the past five seasons, who is a four-time First-Team All-Pro selection, who is the 2021 Defensive Player of the Year and who is an institution in Pittsburgh — is a native of Wisconsin.

A homecoming for Watt? That’s the logic?

“I’m gonna make T.J. Watt happy, the player, ‘Hey, come home to Wisconsin,” Fowler theorized this week on ESPN’s Get Up. “Play for the hometown, home area Packers. The Green Bay Packers are actually low-key looking at the pass rush market around free agency, potential trades, potential signings. They have some new cap space after they moved on from Jaire Alexander, the star cornerback.

“Why not use that money and make T.J. Watt the highest paid edge rusher?”

Why not? Because this scenario seems completely manufactured by ESPN as a way of being “cute.”

Watt, 30, is presently entering the final year of his four-year, $112 million deal he signed in 2021. He really might become the highest-paid ever among non-QB’s, surpassing Cleveland Browns star Myles Garrett by signing a deal totaling more than $40 million per year.

But the two holes in Fowler’s logic are gaping ones.

First, we doubt that he’s surveyed Watt about his passion for “coming home to Wisconsin.” Does T.J. feel that way? We have no idea.

And second, Fowler is calling Green Bay’s approach to adding a pass rusher a “low-key” one.

T.J. Watt being traded by the Steelers to the Packers would be anything but “low-key.”