BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson is expected to start Friday’s preseason opener against the Jaguars. The team made the announcement Wednesday, just before boarding a flight to Jacksonville, Florida. Watson and the Browns are waiting to see if he will be suspended longer than the six-game suspension he was handed for violating…
Running back Kareem Hunt, who is seeking a contract extension, has requested a trade from the Cleveland Browns, but the team has privately declined that request, sources confirmed to ESPN. Hunt, who is in the final year of a two-year, $12 million deal, had missed team drills the past two practices but returned to them…
BEREA, Ohio — The NFL on Wednesday appealed the six-game suspension of Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, seeking a stiffer penalty for violating the league’s personal conduct policy in the wake of disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson’s ruling Monday. In a statement, the league said it notified the NFL Players Association it would appeal, then…
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will serve a six-game suspension without pay but will not be fined for violating the league’s personal conduct policy following allegations of sexual misconduct, disciplinary official Sue L. Robinson ruled Monday. Robinson issued his ruling in a comprehensive 16-page report. She wrote that the NFL recommended that Watson be suspended…
SPARTANBURG, SC – The six-game suspension Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson received Monday for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy didn’t draw much of a reaction from the quarterback he replaced. Baker Mayfield, who was traded from Cleveland to the Carolina Panthers four months after the Browns acquired Watson from the Houston Texans in March,…
More than two years after the first civil lawsuit was filed against Deshaun Watson, disciplinary official Sue L. Robinson has suspended the Cleveland Browns quarterback for the first six games of the 2022 season, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Robinson, jointly appointed by the NFL and the NFL Players Association to decide the case…
NFL disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson is expected to issue a ruling Monday on whether Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson violated the league’s personal conduct policy, sources confirmed to ESPN. Ahead of Robinson’s decision, the NFL Players Association released a statement Sunday night saying the union and Watson “will stand by her decision” and urged…
The Cleveland Browns are signing former first-round pick Josh Rosen to a one-year deal, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday. Rosen, the No. 10 pick in the 2018 draft, last played for the Atlanta Falcons in 2021 and completed 2 of 11 passes with two interceptions. The Browns, facing the possibility that starter Deshaun…
Ryan Switzer, a former North Carolina receiving receiver who had a five-year career in the NFL, has retired from football. Switzer, who has not appeared in an NFL game since 2019, announced his decision Monday on Twitter. Switzer spent the last two seasons in Cleveland, where he was on the training team while battling injuries….
17:35 ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN Veteran cornerback Jason McCourty announced his retirement from the NFL on Friday, marking the end of a 13-season career for the former sixth-round draft pick. Originally drafted in 2009 by the Tennessee Titans, with whom he played eight seasons, McCourty went from the lowest low in the NFL to experiencing the…
