The Browns plan to conduct their mandatory minicamp next week via a series of traveling practices, beginning in Berea, Ohio, then Canton at the Pro Football Hall of Fame and, finally, at their home stadium in Cleveland.
Perhaps, at some point, this was recast as a strategic opportunity to showcase their new quarterback while also minimizing distractions in one single location. But now? These practices should not involve Deshaun Watson at all.
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The latest developments in the Watson legal saga, this time via a report from The New York Times detailing both the possible scope of Watson’s alleged behavior and the lengths to which the Texans and his own attorney went to facilitate his attempts to both seek out massages and control the damage from their fallouts, make one aspect of his pending disciplinary process with the NFL crystal clear: There is no way the league can allow him near a football field right now.