Deshaun Watson issues cryptic response after Cleveland Browns owner called him 'a big miss'

Deshaun Watson made a cryptic societal media station connected Tuesday aft receiving immoderate scathing disapproval from Browns proprietor Jimmy Haslam.

Haslam told reporters astatine the league's yearly meetings that franchise's determination to commercialized for Watson was a 'big plaything and miss' that near the enactment successful a 'hole.'

The passer, a three-time Pro Bowler earlier successful his vocation with the Texans, has played conscionable 19 games and thrown arsenic galore touchdowns for Cleveland aft the squad traded 3 first-round picks to get him and handed him a fully-guaranteed $230m deal.

Following Haslam's remarks, Watson appeared to code the disapproval connected Instagram.

'Maybe, if I weren’t built for this, I’d fto it signifier maine ..,' helium captioned a bid of photos of him moving out.

The backmost is presently recovering from 2 abstracted Achilles tears, 1 during the play successful October and different successful January.

It's imaginable that helium volition miss the full 2025 season, and the Browns could prime his semipermanent successor with the No. 2 wide prime successful this month's NFL Draft.

The squad besides signed erstwhile first-round prime Kenny Pickett this offseason.

In summation to Watson's wounded struggles (a enarthrosis wounded besides constricted him to six games successful 2023) and show issues, the squad traded for him astatine a clip erstwhile helium faced 22 lawsuits from women accusing him of intersexual misconduct.

As a effect of violating the league's idiosyncratic behaviour policy, helium was suspended by the NFL for the archetypal 11 games of the 2022 play and fined $5million.

Watson was not indicted by 2 expansive juries but settled each but 1 of the 24 civilian lawsuits yet brought against him.

Even earlier helium got injured past season, Watson struggled for Cleveland, averaging conscionable 164 passing yards per crippled successful 7 starts.

After the team's discourtesy thrived the remainder of the mode nether Jameis Winston - present of the New York Giants - Cleveland could prime Cam Ward oregon Shedeur Sanders aboriginal this month.

The squad precocious hosted some players astatine its facility. 

'The draught is immense for us,' Haslam said. 

'It would beryllium large if we could get 'the quarterback,' but we're not going to unit it. We're going to beryllium diligent and we're going to effort to accumulate arsenic galore truly bully shot players arsenic we can.'

The Browns went 3-14 past twelvemonth and person made the playoffs conscionable erstwhile successful the past 4 years.