The Browns rookies and quarterbacks reported to CrossCountry Mortgage Campus for training camp on Friday. Among the team’s group of signal callers was Deshaun Watson, despite not currently knowing his status for the 2022 season.
Watson is waiting for a ruling from Sue L. Robinson, the NFL and NFLPA’s independent arbitrator in his hearing, to determine if he will face any suspension for the sexual misconduct allegations against him.
The three-time Pro Bowler still faces four active civil suits, after 20 were settled in June, that were filed by massage therapists, detailing graphic accounts of sexual harassment and sexual assault that took place during massage therapy sessions. The accounts range from Watson allegedly refusing to cover his genitals to the quarterback “touching [a plaintiff] with his penis and trying to force her to perform oral sex on him.” In June, The New York Times’ Jenny Vrentas reported that Watson booked at least 66 women over the span of 17 months for massage therapy sessions.
