Quarterback Deshaun Watson is having another rough season with the Cleveland Browns.
While he's stayed healthy through the team's first five games in hopes of completing his first full season since 2020, Watson's 74.8 passer rating is the worst of his career and he leads the NFL with 26 sacks taken for a league-high 154 yards. Watson's 60.2 completion percentage is the second-worst since he debuted in 2017, he's thrown for just 852 yards, five touchdowns and three interceptions and the Browns are a disappointing 1-4.
With the recent news that the three-time Pro Bowler has reached another settlement regarding the most recent lawsuit against him for sexual assault and battery, he's now up to 23 settlements since the allegations first came out in 2021.
Watson then had another brutal performance in Cleveland's 34-13 loss to the Washington Commanders in Week 5 on Sunday, finishing 15-for-28 with a season-low 125 passing yards as well as one touchdown.
As noted by SBNation.com's James Dator, the Clemson product now has more settled lawsuits than touchdown passes during his Browns tenure.
Deshaun Watson has more settled lawsuits (23) than touchdown passes (19) since being traded to the Browns
— James Dator (@James_Dator) October 8, 2024
Even when adding Watson's three rushing scores during his Cleveland career, the 22 total touchdowns still falls short of the 23 settlements.
Watson's added 11 interceptions and eight lost fumbles for 19 turnovers in his time since being traded to the Browns from the Houston Texans in March 2022.
The former first-round pick made three consecutive Pro Bowls with Houston from 2018-20 while missing just one game. Watson then missed the entire 2021 campaign and was traded amid his sexual assault and sexual harassment scandal involving more than two dozen female massage therapists. He then signed a fully guaranteed five-year, $230M contract with the Browns (the largest in NFL history).
Watson served an 11-game suspension to start the 2022 season and has looked nothing like his former Pro Bowl self since then.
He played six contests in 2022 following the suspension and six games last year after battling multiple injuries before finally being shut down for the season in November.
While his first 17 games with the organization have been spread across three campaigns, the sample size (one full season of contests) is big enough to clearly see that Watson has been a disaster since he arrived.
Cleveland has gone a respectable 9-8 in Watson's starts, but it's been largely due to its defense.
The 29-year-old has recorded a 60.0 completion percentage for 3,069 passing yards, 19 touchdowns and 12 interceptions for a 79.4 passer rating with the Browns.
Despite his monstrous contract, he could be in danger of being benched, and if he doesn't throw at least four touchdown passes in Week 6 against the Philadelphia Eagles, he'll still have the stunning statistic noted by Dator staring him in the face.
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