How NFL Teams Talk Themselves Into Players Like Deshaun Watson
The Cleveland Browns signed the quarterback despite many allegations of sexual misconduct.
Updated at 6:45 p.m. ET on March 24, 2022.
The Cleveland Browns are acting as if they conducted a high-level, CSI-like investigation before offering Deshaun Watson a five-year, $230 million deal late last week. It’s a laughable pretense.
The quarterback, formerly of the Houston Texans, faces accusing him of a range of inappropriate and coercive sexual behavior. Female massage therapists that, among other acts, Watson exposed himself, inappropriately touched them with his penis, or, in two cases, forced them to perform oral sex. The Browns that they
