Browns newbie Dorian Thompson-Robinson to supplant Watson as quarterback against Steelers on Sunday
Thursday, November 16, 2023
The Cleveland Browns affirmed on Wednesday that their establishment quarterback will go through a medical procedure to fix a break, possibly finishing the season, following a X-ray on Monday that showed the quarterback experienced a dislodged crack of the glenoid in his right shoulder.
Watson requires crisis medical procedure, the group's primary care physicians closed, to forestall more underlying harm.
"I'm still in dismay. I'm actually attempting to handle all the data," Watson said. "I felt like we were turning a corner to truly cause a run regardless to accept we actually will with the folks in this storage space. I simply needed to be a piece of it truly. ... It's hard to attempt to fold all that over my head at this moment."
Watson, who will be on harmed hold, is supposed to return for the 2024 season and desires to toss again in a few months.
In the mean time, Browns freshman Dorian Thompson-Robinson will begin at quarterback against the Steelers on Sunday, as per mentor Kevin Stefanski.
"I need to allow him seven days where he knows he's the starter and gets an entire seven day stretch of planning," Stefanski said.
Thompson-Robinson made his most memorable profession start in Week 4 after Watson was latent due to a rotator sleeve strain which constrained him to miss four games this season, ESPN revealed.
Thompson-Robinson finished 19 of 36 passes for 121 yards and tossed three capture attempts in the 28-3 misfortune to the Baltimore Ravens. The tenderfoot will begin once again PJ Walker, who has tossed for 618 yards, one score, and five block attempts in five games.
Watson uncovered that he realized something was the issue with his shoulder during the primary portion of Sunday's dug out from a deficit prevail upon the Ravens however continued to play through it.
"The entire last part was difficult to toss a football," Watson said. "I was simply pushing through anything I was feeling."
The 28-year-old quarterback played his best game in a Browns uniform on Sunday, finishing each of the 14 pass endeavors in the last part and driving Cleveland on a triumphant field objective drive to overcome Baltimore 33-31.
In spite of experiencing a left high lower leg sprain, Watson pushed to keep playing yet specialists cautioned it could demolish the injury.
Browns head supervisor Andrew Berry said the shoulder crack was inconsequential to his rotator sleeve strain and that there was a "lovely clear clinical suggestion" for Watson to have a medical procedure.
"We are extremely frustrated and crushed for Deshaun," Berry said, "particularly given all that he has fought and gone through therapeutically this season."
