The Cleveland Browns went all out when they traded for Deshaun Watson in 2022. They figured that he could be their missing piece for championship caliber team. His first season in Cleveland was highlighted by his 11-game suspension. The team went 7-10 that year. 2023 was derailed by injuries as Watson suffered a season ending shoulder injury in Week 10.
Their 2024 season got off to a brutal start after a 33-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Now more bad news is surfacing out of Cleveland.
Cleveland Browns QB Deshaun Watson’s Future In The NFL Is Up In The Air
According to Daniel Oyefusi of ESPN:
A new civil lawsuit filed in Houston on Monday accuses Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and battery in October 2020, when he was a member of the Houston Texans.
According to the lawsuit, the alleged incident occurred before Watson and a woman, who goes by the pseudonym “Jane Doe” in the court filing, were set to have dinner at the woman’s apartment.
The lawsuit states that Watson met the woman, a single mother, at a Houston restaurant and bar, managed to get her phone number and initially attempted to have her meet him at the Houston Galleria for a date. Reluctant to meet Watson in public, the woman instead agreed to a dinner date at her apartment, according to the lawsuit.
On the evening of the date, according to the lawsuit, she said Watson had trouble finding her apartment and began aggressively yelling and screaming at her on the phone, saying he didn’t “have time for this.”
The lawsuit alleges that, while applying makeup in her bathroom, the woman then found Watson “completely naked on her bed, lying face down on his stomach.” Watson then requested the woman massage his buttocks and the woman “tried to appease Watson by rubbing his back, rather than his buttocks,” according to the lawsuit.
Watson then turned over and “continued to demand that Jane Doe massage him, gesturing from his knees to his groin,” according to the lawsuit. The woman told Watson that she was not a masseuse, to which Watson asked her what she wanted to do instead, the suit alleges.
Before the woman could answer, Watson “partially disrobed Jane Doe and penetrated her vagina without consent, implicit or explicit,” according to the lawsuit, which also alleges that Watson sexually assaulted the woman for several minutes before she escaped and grabbed a heavy piece of decor for self-defense. Watson then “stormed out of Jane Doe’s apartment,” according to the lawsuit.
Watson was signed to a fully guaranteed $230 million deal by the Browns in March 2022, which was an NFL record at the time. They traded six draft picks, including three first-round picks, for Watson.
Watson has made just 13 starts with Cleveland, including Sunday’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys — his first game since undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery last November. In the loss, Watson completed 24 of 45 passes for 169 yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions.
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