If Deshaun Watson was drafted by the Cleveland Browns, or signed there for a reasonable contract, he probably would have been benched this past Sunday. And he'd probably be benched for this weekend's game against the Jacksonville Jaguars and the foreseeable future, too.
The Browns are too pot-committed to do that now. They gave up a ton of draft picks to trade for Watson and then signed him to a $230 million fully guaranteed contract. And the Browns have gotten very little from that investment, other than terrible headlines, including another Monday for a civil lawsuit over an alleged incident of sexual assault in 2020.