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Deshaun Watson Suspended 6 Games

ESPN Daily

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the history of sports punishment, there is no case quite like the one of Deshaun Watson. The Browns had acquired the star quarterback from the Texans back in March, amid dozens of civil lawsuits, filed by dozens of women who accused him of sexual assault and misconduct. And even though Watson wouldn’t face criminal charges, the question was never if Watson would be suspended by the league this season: it was for how long. ESPN’s Cleveland Browns reporter Jake Trotter explains how a quarterback’s “predatory conduct” only warranted a six-game suspension, potentially returning him to America’s televisions by October 23rd. And what the NFL might do next, as a result. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We have enormous breaking news for the National Football League and I'm sure the decision has been made.

0:09.6

What can you tell us?

0:10.7

Moments ago Sue L. Robinson, the retired federal judge, handed down her decision and

0:16.4

DeShawn Watson has been suspended for six games.

0:19.9

Obviously, she ruled that he violated the personal conduct policy.

0:23.7

She will not find him in this particular case.

0:27.0

And I think the question now becomes, does the NFL appeal this decision?

0:31.8

In the history of sports punishment, there is no case quite like the one of DeShawn Watson.

0:41.9

Because the Browns had acquired the Star Quarterback from the Texans back in March, amid dozens

0:46.9

of civil lawsuits, filed by dozens of women who accused him of sexual assault and misconduct.

0:53.9

Watson wouldn't face criminal charges, but the question was never if Watson would be suspended by the league this season.

1:01.2

It was for how long?

1:03.5

So today, we go to Cleveland to explain how a quarterbacks predatory conduct only warranted a six game suspension,

1:11.4

returning him to America's televisions by October 23rd.

1:15.8

And what the NFL might do next, as a result.

1:21.3

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1:25.4

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