Browns pick Deshaun Watson as their starting QB despite home crowd booing and his '17 away games' comments
It's going to be Deshaun Watson as the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns to open the NFL regular season, which means one thing: Get your popcorn ready because this should be entertaining.
No, not entertaining in the typical star-player-doing-amazing-things kind of way.
Entertaining in the cinema drama kind of way because what we have here is the NFL equivalent of a villain being given the opportunity to redeem himself and then deciding – by his actions – if he continues to be reviled based on what happens next.
DESHAUN WATSON BOOED BY BROWNS FANS, FIRES BACK AFTER POOR OUTING OPENS DOOR FOR SHEDEUR SANDERS What happened Sunday evening is Browns coach Todd Monken and general manager Andrew Berry picked Watson to be their starter over Shedeur Sanders, to culminate a competition that spanned the entire offseason and into the first two preseason games.
That decision was announced to the players on Monday morning.
And now we see the next chapter of what has been the tremendously disappointing story of Watson in Cleveland.
It's a story that has compounded on-field failure, Personal Conduct Policy suspension, and one injury after another the last three years.
It's a story that seemed to have a climax on Saturday when Watson was booed lustily by Browns fans – at home at Huntington Bank Field – from the moment he entered the game in the second half pretty much until the game was over.
DESHAUN WATSON'S FIRST GAME SINCE 2024 A SUCCESS BECAUSE HE WASN'T AS BAD AS SHEDEUR SANDERS OR DILLON GABRIEL And then Watson conducted a viral press conference in which he called what Browns fans did "personal," and "disrespectful," making it seem possible that his time with the team was about to end because how does an NFL team keep a QB that gets booed at home? Watson, indeed said, he would be playing "17 away games" if he won the starting job.
But these are the Browns, folks.
They do Browns things.
A source confirmed to OutKick the Browns did not take Watson's words into account when deciding on him as the starter.
They obviously also didn't take the booing into account.
They picked Watson over Sanders because, well, Watson is more experienced.
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