Insider shares alarming Deshaun Watson update

It looks like Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson would possibly miss better than two entire video video games with the rotator cuff contusion that will keep him a spectator when the 2-2 Browns hosts the 5-0 San Francisco 49ers this Sunday. 

Mary Kay Cabot of the Plain Vendor reported late Friday afternoon that Watson “could miss numerous further video video games” with what’s being often known as “a deep contusion that presents or options further like a stress.” 

Watson suffered the preliminary hurt throughout the 27-3 win over the Tennessee Titans on Sept. 24, nonetheless was medically cleared for the workers’s matchup in direction of the Baltimore Ravens on Oct. 1. However, the 28-year-old signal-caller was made inactive for that contest after he struggled by his pregame warmup after which didn’t apply all by means of this earlier midweek coming off Cleveland’s bye. 

Backup P.J. Walker made five starts with the Carolina Panthers last season and has modified rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson atop the Browns depth chart for Sunday’s matchup with the 49ers and until further uncover. It’s unclear if Walker or Thompson-Robinson would start for Cleveland on the Indianapolis Colts if Watson can’t play on Oct. 22. 

A report from earlier throughout the week relayed that Watson might need 2-6 weeks to utterly recuperate from his setback. 

“(Watson) gained’t be once more out on the sphere as soon as extra until he can throw normally and with out ache — nonetheless prolonged that takes,” Cabot wrote. Cabot added that it “doesn’t appear” Watson desires what attainable may very well be season-ending surgical process to revive the issue. 

Whereas Watson reportedly “aggravated” some teammates by not having fun with in direction of the Ravens, every offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt and head coach Kevin Stefanski have since defended the signal-caller and insisted their QB1 must return to the lineup as shortly as attainable. 

“He wants very badly to play, nonetheless it’s necessary to cope with the hurt,” Stefanski acknowledged about Watson on Friday. “You have to be wise about what you’re doing.”

As of Friday night time, OddsChecker listed the Watson-less Browns as nine-point underdogs for Sunday’s sport versus the Niners.