{"id":860263,"date":"2026-04-08T04:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:57:20","slug":"browns-qb-deshaun-watson-faces-criticism-over-a-recent-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860263\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns QB Deshaun Watson faces criticism over a recent post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Browns<\/a> quarterback Deshaun Watson has not taken an NFL snap since Oct 2024, when he tore his Achilles tendon. He re-ruptured it in Jan 2025 and missed the entire season.<\/p>\n

He is heading into the final year of the fully guaranteed, five-year, $230 million deal he signed<\/a> in 2022, which is still standing as the largest fully guaranteed contract in NFL history, having played just 19 games across four seasons.<\/p>\n

His 2026 cap hit sits at approximately $46 million after a March restructure. On Tuesday, as Cleveland’s voluntary offseason program opened in Berea, Watson posted a TikTok of himself cruising in a GLS Maybach. As shared<\/a> by MLFootball on X.<\/p>\n

Watson’s carefree TikTok lands differently given four years of disappointment in Cleveland<\/p>\n

The timing is actually what makes this so uncomfortable to watch for the Dawg Pound. His quarterback competition opened in Berea the same day.<\/p>\n

Shedeur Sanders, who went 3-4 as a starter in 2025, enters the spring program as the frontrunner.<\/p>\n

Watson played only six starts in 2023 before a shoulder injury ended his season. Seven in 2024 before the Achilles gave way.<\/p>\n

Watson did not write the contract himself<\/p>\n

Before anyone reaches for outrage over a man enjoying a car ride, it is worth being honest about where the actual fault lies here. Watson did not hand himself $230 million. The Browns<\/a> did. Owner Jimmy Haslam eventually called<\/a> it “a big swing and miss,” describing one of the worst financial decisions in NFL history.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Watson has drawn criticism for social media posts during recovery. A December 2024 TikTok of him dancing without a walking boot drew serious scrutiny after he re-ruptured his Achilles weeks later.<\/p>\n

Berea is where Watson’s future actually gets decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has not taken an NFL snap since Oct 2024, when he tore his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-860263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116367317168657100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}